Category: Consciousness

How to Offer Hope

The oth­er day a friend told me about an orga­ni­za­tion in which those who are con­sid­ered star per­form­ers are explic­it­ly nur­tured, those who are con­sid­ered aver­age are rec­og­nized as doing good work, and those who are not doing so well receive no feed­back at all. This is a planned, offi­cial strat­e­gy, thought-out and based on… Con­tin­ue read­ing How to Offer Hope

On the Cave of the Intrapersonal

We seem to be more aware than ever that suc­cess in busi­ness, as in life, requires self-aware­­ness. Self-aware­­ness offers us the advan­tages of under­stand­ing our own think­ing and bias­es, gives us greater capac­i­ty for emo­tion­al reg­u­la­tion, and a deep­er appre­ci­a­tion for our val­ues. “Emo­tion­al intel­li­gence” is only one the lat­est prod­ucts of a long his­to­ry… Con­tin­ue read­ing On the Cave of the Intrapersonal

On Alchemy

I find myself empha­siz­ing intra-per­­son­al learn­ing for cor­po­rate lead­ers because time and again I’ve noticed that the inter­per­son­al or com­pet­i­tive risks they voice can mask a deep­er inte­ri­or risk, one where there is a reluc­tance to move beyond the per­son­’s estab­lished sense of iden­ti­ty. They may be skill­ful in their con­ver­sa­tions and rela­tion­ships, and they… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Alche­my

Inner Wildness

There may be all too lit­tle true wilder­ness left on our shrink­ing globe, but there is still plen­ty of wilder­ness with­in.  The path toward lead­ing suc­cess­ful­ly is all too often mea­sured in exter­nal out­comes, but the truth we know is that it is also mea­sured in “incomes,” the degree to which a human being is… Con­tin­ue read­ing Inner Wild­ness