Category: Choices

The Sheer Grandeur of Our Mistakes

In case you haven’t been fol­low­ing the Wells Far­go scan­dal, I am reprint­ing the tran­scrip­tion of Sen­a­tor Eliz­a­beth War­ren ques­tion­ing John Stumpf, CEO and Chair­man of the Board of Wells Far­go dur­ing recent Sen­ate hear­ings. Over a peri­od of five years, 5,300 employ­ees were fired for open­ing accounts for cus­tomers with­out their knowl­edge, result­ing in… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Sheer Grandeur of Our Mistakes

The Wolves Revisited

It is a strange time to say the least.  Peo­ple are begin­ning to pub­lish more and more about Trump, rais­ing aware­ness of the dan­gers he rep­re­sents. The good news is he is being stopped, grad­u­al­ly, by peo­ple shar­ing the rapid­ly accu­mu­lat­ing evi­dence of his pat­terns: author­i­tar­i­an­ism, racism, misog­y­ny, xeno­pho­bia, crude­ness, nar­cis­sism, denials, divi­sive­ness, blam­ing, lying, vio­lence.… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Wolves Revisited

Self-Control, Self-Confrontation and…Self-Conflict

It is no sur­prise that devot­ed, self-dis­­­ci­­plined, per­fec­tion­is­tic peo­ple — peo­ple with high ideals and addict­ed to their expec­ta­tions for self-improve­­ment — can be so cru­el to them­selves.  We bright achiev­ers, peo­ple who feel it is our oblig­a­tion to know our­selves and con­front our faults, may find our­selves in par­tic­u­lar­ly chal­leng­ing lead­er­ship roles only to… Con­tin­ue read­ing Self-Con­trol, Self-Con­fronta­tion and…Self-Conflict