Rejecting the Default Culture

Busi­ness cul­ture is an accre­tion of lay­ers, just like the crust of the earth. While the sur­face often rep­re­sents the cur­rent moment in his­to­ry, dig a lit­tle and you are like­ly to find some­thing less sophis­ti­cat­ed, empow­er­ing, and inclu­sive. A “default” busi­ness cul­ture — mean­ing what we revert to giv­en no oth­er input or direc­tion… Con­tin­ue read­ing Reject­ing the Default Culture

Cross-Over Points

Most of us live in mul­ti­ple worlds simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, the world of our pro­fes­sion­al life and our per­son­al life prob­a­bly the most obvi­ous exam­ple. Much of the time this com­part­men­tal­iz­ing helps us main­tain bal­ance, but some­times it also cre­ates a per­son with mul­ti­ple souls, none of which is entire­ly ful­filled. Inso­far as we man­age the bal­ance,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Cross-Over Points

The Gifts of Age: Part 2

What­ev­er we believe to be our gifts of age, it seems impos­si­ble to con­clude any­thing but that they derive from expe­ri­ence. This is true not only for the gifts men­tioned in Part I — free­dom from mak­ing judg­ments, inner con­fi­dence, accep­tance and fruition — but for so many oth­ers unmen­tioned so far, such as wis­dom,… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Gifts of Age: Part 2

The Gifts of Age: Part 1

I asked Dan Oestre­ich and Deb Call to join with me (I’m Dick Richards) in cre­at­ing a post about “the gifts of age” because it seemed that we were each plow­ing that field in our indi­vid­ual blogs. So this is a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort and it has been my priv­i­lege to put our thoughts togeth­er and… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Gifts of Age: Part 1