Category: Listening

There is a whole tra­di­tion in the def­i­n­i­tion of lead­er­ship that has to do with what lead­ers do not do them­selves. The Tao Te Ching is full of that tra­di­tion — express­ing the very foun­da­tions of a phi­los­o­phy and aes­thet­ics that depend on an expect­ed inter­play between absence and pres­ence, an object such as a… Con­tin­ue read­ing I Am the Pot

Per­haps because I’ve been work­ing on mon­ey man­age­ment and tax­es late­ly, I have been forced to con­sid­er what I do for a liv­ing. The con­ver­sa­tion with myself seemed to go in cir­cles today until this strange oxy­moron­ic phrase came to mind: sell­ing wis­dom. As in, “You can’t be seri­ous, you do what?” The phrase had… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Lit­tle Shop of Wisdom