How to Talk to Each Other About Each Other

Over the years, work­ing with both indi­vid­u­als and teams, the chal­lenge recre­ates itself again and again: we fail to talk to each oth­er about each oth­er. We’d rather han­dle what­ev­er dif­fi­cul­ties we face in our rela­tion­ships at work in almost any oth­er way. “Sep­a­rate the prob­lem from the peo­ple,” says the guru, yet I’m here… Con­tin­ue read­ing How to Talk to Each Oth­er About Each Other

Moving Toward Wholeness

Not long ago my friend, Ed Batista tweet­ed that he felt inspired by how I had con­nect­ed lead­er­ship to psy­cho­log­i­cal whole­ness in a recent post. That was very kind, and it also plant­ed a seed. I’ve writ­ten before about what I think whole­ness is for lead­ers, but look­ing back to that 2011 post, I was dis­ap­point­ed… Con­tin­ue read­ing Mov­ing Toward Wholeness

On Unfairness

The very word, “unfair­ness,” if you slow down and let it sink in with you for a moment, is like a nee­dle touch­ing a wound. You may feel your stom­ach tight­en, the prod­uct of a pri­ma­ry social threat. As the last term in David Rock­’s famous SCARF mod­el, it rep­re­sents one of the most potent… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Unfair­ness