A Thread of Consciousness

Open­ness is like a thread of con­scious­ness span­ning points that are often total­ly uncon­scious. The head of a man­u­fac­tur­ing firm owned by a major nation­al cor­po­ra­tion was talk­ing to me about the senior man­age­ment team that report­ed to him. He asked me as a con­sul­tant, “Why aren’t they more open with me? Why don’t they… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Thread of Consciousness

Openness

Open­ness is an essen­tial con­di­tion of liv­ing well. To be open means to be recep­tive to new infor­ma­tion, ideas, and expe­ri­ences – to be gen­uine­ly sen­si­tive to the world around us, avail­able to what is new and fresh, unblocked by the fil­ters of past con­di­tion­ing. It means to rise out of the grooves of habit… Con­tin­ue read­ing Open­ness

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Beyond the Edge: The Event

Today, ear­li­er, I wrote about a dream. One out­come of that dream is a beau­ti­ful and remark­able expe­ri­ence called “Beyond the Edge: Affirm­ing Your Des­tiny as a Leader.” It is the best work I do, shar­ing in it with my close friends and col­leagues, Barb Hum­mel and Jay How­ell. We’ve been doing this event since 1996,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Beyond the Edge: The Event

Beyond the Edge

Almost ten years ago I had a dream that changed my life. I found myself at dusk in a deep val­ley, although still high up in the moun­tains. Above me, at the very sum­mit of the tallest hill stood a torii gate catch­ing the last rays of the sun. A sense of dan­ger swept over me… Con­tin­ue read­ing Beyond the Edge