If It’s Not a Clear Yes, It’s a No

If it’s not a clear yes, it’s a no. The phrase tests our clar­i­ty and com­mit­ment. It does­n’t apply in every sit­u­a­tion that might be answered, “maybe, maybe not.” Not every­thing can be or should be clear cut. But the phrase may have dis­tinc­tive val­ue when it is a way of ask­ing our­selves about sit­u­a­tions… Con­tin­ue read­ing If It’s Not a Clear Yes, It’s a No

On Workplace Depersonalization

I have been think­ing a lot late­ly about work­place deper­son­al­iza­tion. Let me give you a cou­ple of exam­ples. True sto­ries. I go for a doc­tor’s appoint­ment and am sit­ting in the wait­ing area while oth­ers check in. One of the recep­tion­ists says to an old­er, incom­ing patient: “Oh, hel­lo! It’s so nice to see you!… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Work­place Depersonalization

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

The Context

Out of nature comes a sense of ulti­mate con­text. Writer Gary Fer­gu­son asks: “…who would­n’t feel a twitch of bewil­der­ment to think that 99.99999 per­cent of our body is com­prised of the emp­ty space that exists between the elec­trons, neu­trons, and pro­tons — each one of those an ele­ment of the atoms that give us… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Con­text