Hear Dan read this post. Someone I knew ran off this road returning home late one night. He had been drinking and died in the accident that everyone knew wasn’t one. I heard about this a couple months ago just after it happened. I didn’t know him that well, but well enough to be really… Continue reading The Long Road
Category: Wounds
At the Water-Line
Hear me read this post. Many years ago I came across a remarkable model, known as the cultural iceberg. Developed by Stanley Herman of TRW Systems in 1970, it describes some of the most important workplace dynamics that any of us could ever know about. The top part of the iceberg represents the visible, formal… Continue reading At the Water-Line
It’s an Ego Thing
It is one of those mornings when, too early, I find myself on a jet headed east from Seattle. Thankfully, though I am in the last row of coach at the window, there is a seat between me and the guy who sits down at the aisle. At least, I can stretch out my elbows.… Continue reading It’s an Ego Thing
Myself an Offering to Myself and Other Thoughts
Jay’s thoughtful comments on “The Practice of Leadership” post reinforce my deep conviction that leadership represents an evolutionary aspect of consciousness. “Gradations of leadership awareness” seems to me to be absolutely accurate. But the question is, how can we describe this so that it is easier to see the path we are walking? In this… Continue reading Myself an Offering to Myself and Other Thoughts