A Blessing from Leslie LeMieux

A few posts back, I men­tioned a pow­er­ful ques­tion that marks the tran­si­tion into tru­ly trans­par­ent lead­er­ship: “What is my gift to mankind?” I want to intro­duce you to some­one who is mak­ing such a gift to mankind through her exquis­ite tal­ents as a psy­chic. If you are react­ing to the term, “psy­chic,” please check… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Bless­ing from Leslie LeMieux

The Unfolding That Cannot Be Contained

Before I move on to a post about the Third Prac­tice (Self-Care), I want to explore a ques­tion that has been sim­mer­ing for a cou­ple days in con­ver­sa­tions with my great friend and col­league, Jay How­ell. Our top­ic has been what we see hap­pen­ing to the word, “leader.” I have found it fas­ci­nat­ing that search­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Unfold­ing That Can­not Be Contained

The Island of Self

I just got back from a tech­no­rati search under key­word, “lead­er­ship.” There were 86,586 entries to con­sid­er, and yet as I thumbed through them I kept hear­ing that old line from a Bruce Spring­steen song about cable tele­vi­sion: “there was fifty-sev­en chan­nels and noth­in’ on.” After vis­it­ing a few sites that expressed great anger because it… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Island of Self

Second Practice: Developing Your Comfort Level with Feedback

For more con­text on this post­ing, please see: The Prac­tice of Lead­er­ship Eight Lead­er­ship Prac­tices First Prac­tice: Know­ing Your Lead­er­ship Edge Third Prac­tice: Car­ing for Self Fourth Prac­tice: Lead­er­ship and Influ­ence Fifth Prac­tice: Dis­cussing Undis­cuss­ables Sixth Prac­tice: On Col­lab­o­rat­ing Sev­enth Prac­tice: Per­son­al Integri­ty Eighth Prac­tice: Spir­i­tu­al Per­spec­tive I believe we are real­ly, deeply con­fused about “feed­back.” In… Con­tin­ue read­ing Sec­ond Prac­tice: Devel­op­ing Your Com­fort Lev­el with Feedback