Category: Reflective Leadership

On Self-Confrontation

One could almost say the heart of reflec­tive lead­er­ship is the capac­i­ty for self-con­fronta­tion. It is not real­ly a skill. It is more a “psy­cho­log­i­cal move,” a men­tal and emo­tion­al re-posi­­tion­ing to look very hon­est­ly at one­self and one’s sit­u­a­tion. With­out it, we have no way to accu­rate­ly judge or respond to sit­u­a­tions, espe­cial­ly when… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Self-Con­fronta­tion

Do You Know What Your Leadership Journey Is?

Phras­es like “lead­er­ship jour­ney” and “lead­er­ship path” fre­quent­ly are thrown around. We may have an intu­itive sense of what they mean as code for the sto­ry of our own per­son­al growth. But if some­one asked you direct­ly, what is that sto­ry for you, could you be artic­u­late? There is so much jar­gon, so many “round… Con­tin­ue read­ing Do You Know What Your Lead­er­ship Jour­ney Is?

The Shudder

The prob­lem with self-knowl­­edge is that it’s not an absolute thing. In effect, those who say they know them­selves are kid­ding them­selves. And those who say they don’t know them­selves are also lying.  I like the way John Wenger over at Quan­tum Shift­ing says it. In a recent post, John tells the sto­ry of a client… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Shud­der