On Leadership Shadows

The Shad­ow is one of Carl Jung’s most pow­er­ful con­cepts, an arche­type of per­son­al and col­lec­tive uncon­scious­ness. Its rel­e­vance is that all of us have parts of our­selves that we do not know, and yet in the maze of our lives, we seek unknow­ing­ly to under­stand. Shad­ow, said Jung, is every­thing we have no wish… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Lead­er­ship Shadows

Three Kinds of Courage

Some years ago, I co-wrote a book called, Dri­ving Fear Out of the Work­place, regard­ing the dynam­ics of speak­ing up in orga­ni­za­tions. My co-author and I described typ­i­cal “undiscussable” issues – undis­cuss­ables being issues that peo­ple hes­i­tate to talk about with those who can do some­thing about the prob­lem – and how to approach them… Con­tin­ue read­ing Three Kinds of Courage

Beauty the Brave

Extra­or­di­nary. A poet fill­ing a 2,500 seat con­cert hall, a stand­ing ova­tion for her inspired pres­ence and ecsta­t­ic read­ing. Mary Oliv­er, Pulitzer Prize win­ner, Nation­al Book Award win­ner, remark­able human being, cap­ti­vat­ed the crowd last night at Benaroya Hall in Seat­tle. I’ve rarely attend­ed an event as deeply delight­ful and as mov­ing. When was it… Con­tin­ue read­ing Beau­ty the Brave

Okay, Brave Souls, More on Leadership Poems

Here’s the deal. Ful­ly 75% of the hits to this site are from peo­ple in search of “lead­er­ship poems,” or some vari­a­tion on that theme. Yet no one active­ly con­tributes to the col­lec­tion. Is there a mis­un­der­stand­ing here about where lead­er­ship poems come from? Indeed, I think so. They don’t come from famous lead­ers par­tic­u­lar­ly, nor… Con­tin­ue read­ing Okay, Brave Souls, More on Lead­er­ship Poems