Category: Consciousness

The Journey of Unlearning

This is the first in a series of five posts on the jour­ney of unlearn­ing roles and life-scripts that inter­fere with effec­tive lead­er­ship and per­son­al ful­fill­ment. If you like, you can hear me read this post. I have begun to think that lead­er­ship in great part is a con­tin­u­ing jour­ney of unlearn­ing. In an ear­li­er… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Jour­ney of Unlearning

Washing My Face

Hear Dan read this post. We all want to know where the point of trans­for­ma­tion lies. I would say it is in “no space,” the place we come to after exhaust­ing every­thing we know…and every­thing we are, a point of pure med­i­ta­tion. The cur­rent the­o­ry base, exem­pli­fied by Otto Scharmer’s “The­o­ry U”, sug­gests exact­ly this… Con­tin­ue read­ing Wash­ing My Face

Working the Edge

Hear Dan read this post. for Jane It is an ancient anal­o­gy: con­scious­ness is to uncon­scious­ness as land is to the sea. At the edge, there is a beach where stones are washed smooth and round, and the drift­wood lies heaped and bat­tered from the storms. A place of immense beau­ty, it is the con­ti­nen­t’s… Con­tin­ue read­ing Work­ing the Edge

On the Capability to Lead

Hear me read this post. Capa­bil­i­ty, mean­ing the skills, intel­li­gence, spir­it, and desire — the full men­tal and emo­tion­al poten­tials to lead. For some of us, this word, capa­bil­i­ty, is a tough one. It means “equal to the task.” I know a num­ber of peo­ple, clients and col­leagues, who strug­gle with inte­ri­or “voic­es” that tell… Con­tin­ue read­ing On the Capa­bil­i­ty to Lead