Category: Power

On Leaving Things Out

Some years ago as my Fri­day end­ed, I walked into a VP’s office intend­ing to sim­ply wish him a good week­end. After a few pleas­antries, we fell into a more seri­ous con­ver­sa­tion about one of his direct reports, who I’ll call Ted. Ted had was per­haps the most tech­ni­cal­ly knowl­edge­able about cer­tain aspects of the… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Leav­ing Things Out

Water and Stone

How much of our life is the prod­uct of water and stone? If you think of water, say, as con­scious­ness, you can notice then how it flows against the stone of old ideas and beliefs. You can try to hold onto that stone, that sol­id rock, but the stone grad­u­al­ly will be smoothed and worn… Con­tin­ue read­ing Water and Stone

Consciousness Is The Only Real Power

Of course, there must have been plen­ty of evo­lu­tion­ary advan­tages to the enriched con­scious­ness of being human. That goes with­out say­ing. As we grow as indi­vid­u­als and as a race, it becomes more appar­ent exact­ly what those advan­tages are. I am coach­ing some­one just now — I’ll call him Dave — who is work­ing on a… Con­tin­ue read­ing Con­scious­ness Is The Only Real Power

The Ears of the Wolf

Many years ago, when I was work­ing in an HR func­tion, two con­sul­tants were hired to help with exec­u­tive selec­tion process­es. Their sophis­ti­cat­ed tem­pera­ment test­ing instru­ment was used in com­bi­na­tion with oth­er stan­dard tools, such as inter­views, resumes, work sam­ples, ref­er­ences, and so on. The con­sul­tants’ infor­ma­tion seemed to be par­tic­u­lar­ly com­pelling and they soon… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Ears of the Wolf