On Finding a Mirror

Read­ing once again the reflec­tions of those of you who respond­ed to the post, The Unfold­ing That Can­not Be Con­tained, I am deeply struck by the dif­fer­ent ways we come at our notions of this thing we call lead­er­ship. From Ash­ley’s com­ment about “sur­ren­der­ing to pow­er that moves through and hon­or­ing the pow­er in all,”… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Find­ing a Mirror

Instruments of Change

I feel like I’ve stum­bled out of the for­est to find an incred­i­ble new meet­ing ground filled with many won­der­ful peo­ple and defined by so many excep­tion­al per­son­al reflec­tions. Recent­ly, the begin­nings of new con­ver­sa­tion hap­pened here, start­ing from my post on feed­back. Nan­cy White sum­ma­rizes the thread, includ­ing the great com­ments offered by Rosan­na… Con­tin­ue read­ing Instru­ments of Change

Third Practice: Caring for Self

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