Category: Choices

Inner Worlds, Outer Actions

At the sec­ond con­ver­sa­tion with a new client, she said to me, “I real­ly got the point of what you said in our first ses­sion. It was kind of, ‘Stop whin­ing and get back to work.’ ” This was way off. I’d said no such thing. This was clear­ly the inner world of the client act­ing out… Con­tin­ue read­ing Inner Worlds, Out­er Actions

Addressing Your Own Leadership Blind Spots

I’ve post­ed a sequence of three videos to YouTube on address­ing your own lead­er­ship blind spots. I felt using video might make this top­ic more direct and per­son­al.  Blind spots are tough. We all have them and they can be chal­leng­ing to root out — giv­en espe­cial­ly that we often pre­fer oth­ers do their work… Con­tin­ue read­ing Address­ing Your Own Lead­er­ship Blind Spots

The Hole and the Portal

Peo­ple nat­u­ral­ly turn to those they con­sid­er lead­ers in times of cri­sis — for answers, deci­sions, emo­tion­al sup­port, for a clear path through tense real­i­ties that risk immense and painful change. If you want evi­dence of this turn toward lead­er­ship, note the wide-spread cri­tique of the Pres­i­den­t’s inac­tions, cor­rup­tions and lies well rep­re­sent­ed by this… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Hole and the Portal

Awkward Leadership

Among the many emo­tions asso­ci­at­ed with lead­ing oth­ers, one is hard­ly men­tioned: awk­ward­ness. And yet, time and again, the places where things can change are in the awk­ward moments, made up of social dis­com­fort, impre­cise words and ten­sions that we hope some­times too des­per­ate­ly are on their way to being over­come.  We can think of… Con­tin­ue read­ing Awk­ward Leadership