Category: Reflective Leadership

Running into Other People’s Unconscious

In Mar­i­lyn Mon­roe’s last inter­view, titled “My Own Pri­vate View of Myself,” she explains what fame has meant to her. Con­duct­ed only a month or so before she died, her words are res­o­nant with both strength and melan­choly, offer­ing a glimpse into her inner world. “…when you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in… Con­tin­ue read­ing Run­ning into Oth­er People’s Unconscious

Growth Now

By growth I mean a positive change in the effectiveness of a person in their leadership capacities. This is actually harder to pull off than it sounds like it might be. We are built with strong, stabilizing internal mechanisms that show up as behavioral patterns etched into our personalities. To change that stuff means something… Continue reading Growth Now

The Leadership Cave

It’s a tru­ism old­er than the hills: lead­ers must at times make deci­sions that do not make oth­er peo­ple hap­py. Because such deci­sions involve con­fi­dence, sen­si­tiv­i­ty and the use of indi­vid­u­at­ed author­i­ty, the process may cause those who lead to come up against their biggest adver­sary — them­selves. Lone­ly at the top means mak­ing judg­ments… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Lead­er­ship Cave

The Practice of Reflective Leadership

For more than thir­ty years I’ve been fas­ci­nat­ed by how as lead­ers we increase our self-knowl­­edge through reflec­tion and how in turn this helps us: • gain insight into our beliefs, val­ues and moti­va­tions • chal­lenge unhelp­ful thought pat­terns and behav­iors • increase sen­si­tiv­i­ty to the needs and emo­tions of oth­ers • stay ground­ed and resilient… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Prac­tice of Reflec­tive Leadership