Liberating Beauty

What is it that most peo­ple don’t “get” about lead­er­ship?  This is actu­al­ly not an easy ques­tion to answer. Not so much because dif­fer­ent peo­ple don’t get dif­fer­ent things, but because the essence is tru­ly hard to name. It’s not reducible, I don’t believe, to a sense of per­son­al respon­si­bil­i­ty or self-aware­­ness or humil­i­ty or… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lib­er­at­ing Beauty

Meditation on Friday

The world is not a per­fect place. There is injus­tice here, unfair­ness, dis­missal of what’s best and true, in us, in oth­ers. But you can­not keep love in check for­ev­er. You can­not keep what’s right in lim­bo for too long. You can­not keep trust in soli­tary, con­fined to dark­ness. You can­not keep the strength of your rebel­lious soul in… Con­tin­ue read­ing Med­i­ta­tion on Friday

Little Behavior, Big Impact

I’m always amazed at how we make mean­ing out of oth­ers’ behav­iors — even, and maybe espe­cial­ly, the lit­tle stuff. I worked with a man­ag­er once who had a bad habit of not com­plet­ing email threads. You know, that last con­firm­ing “Thanks, I’ll see you then,” or “Okay, I’ve got the doc­u­ment. I’ll take a look… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lit­tle Behav­ior, Big Impact

How to Lose Your Control Issues

Los­ing your issues with con­trol is dif­fer­ent than “los­ing con­trol” — although in the begin­ning it may eas­i­ly feel that way. The fact is learn­ing to lose your con­trol issues can be done in a grad­ual and more or less con­trolled way, by mak­ing your fears of its loss more con­scious and there­fore more amenable… Con­tin­ue read­ing How to Lose Your Con­trol Issues

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