Dropping Into the Void

Lis­ten to me read this post. This morn­ing I again read the many fine com­ments relat­ed to Chris Bai­ley’s great Novem­ber post, Is This What Lead­er­ship Looks Like? Chris uses the phrase, “depen­den­cy lead­er­ship mod­el” to describe some of our most neg­a­tive cul­tur­al con­di­tion­ing about lead­er­ship. In the depen­den­cy mod­el, the leader makes our deci­sions… Con­tin­ue read­ing Drop­ping Into the Void

The Question is How

If you like, you can lis­ten to me read this post. In my last post about how true lead­ers influ­ence oth­ers, I talked about the impor­tance of con­nect­ing with a sense of pro­found good­ness flow­ing through one’s core. Giv­en the day-to-day stress­es of our per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al lives it is dif­fi­cult some­times to stay in… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Ques­tion is How

Fourth Practice: Leadership and Influence

Hear me read this post. For more con­text on this post­ing, please see: The Prac­tice of Lead­er­ship Eight Lead­er­ship Prac­tices First Prac­tice: Know­ing Your Lead­er­ship Edge Sec­ond Prac­tice: Devel­op­ing Your Com­fort Lev­el with Feed­back Third Prac­tice: Car­ing for Self Fifth Prac­tice: Dis­cussing Undis­cuss­ables Sixth Prac­tice: On Col­lab­o­rat­ing Sev­enth Prac­tice: Per­son­al Integri­ty Eighth Prac­tice: Spir­i­tu­al Per­spec­tive We con­fuse… Con­tin­ue read­ing Fourth Prac­tice: Lead­er­ship and Influence

Things that Open

I think of things that open; bright win­dows, the wings of birds, old locks and prophet­ic books, our eyes and thoughts and minds; As songs, as scenes and plays, as sto­ries open, as a pause opens an inevitable con­ver­sa­tion, as bonds between us will open, releas­ing us so that yet anoth­er way can open; As a pas­sage­way and the com­fort of a… Con­tin­ue read­ing Things that Open