Category: Reflective Leadership

On Hypocrisy and Self-Protection

A typ­i­cal injunc­tion is that lead­ers should always “walk their talk.” A cost of lead­ing, per­haps, the price of being in a more exposed and influ­en­tial place where the scruti­ny is that much greater. As a cul­ture, we all seemed tuned to search for hypocrisy in oth­er lead­ers, always ready to share a dis­ap­point­ment in… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Hypocrisy and Self-Protection

The Way to Trust

Over the last few months, I have been learn­ing from Ellen Weber and Robyn McMas­ter of the MITA Inter­na­tion­al Brain Based Cen­ter. My goal has been to explore how brain-based learn­ing could help with tack­ling trust issues. Under Ellen and Robyn’s expert guid­ance, I have been work­ing on a tool that could be used to… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Way to Trust

The Path Called I Am

There is a point of learn­ing, a process of “turn­ing the cor­ner” that is evi­dent after receiv­ing neg­a­tive feed­back. For some, defen­sive reac­tions wall out learn­ing, but for oth­ers who are will­ing to step for­ward — some­thing not nec­es­sar­i­ly very easy — con­nec­tion, learn­ing and growth open a way to renew­al. How does this pos­i­tive… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Path Called I Am

On Valuing Your Unique Life Path

I did an inven­to­ry the oth­er day of the kinds of issues clients have brought me over time. Here are some of them: Sur­vival in the role of leader Effec­tive­ness in work­ing with oth­ers, par­tic­u­lar­ly trou­ble­some per­son­al­i­ties, oth­er peo­ple who are in denial, and those who have more pow­er Liv­ing in high con­trol, high risk cul­tures Try­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Valu­ing Your Unique Life Path