Beneath the Surface

The oth­er day I went to a hos­pi­tal to com­plete some rou­tine blood tests. My appoint­ment was ear­ly in the day yet when I arrived a num­ber of peo­ple were already wait­ing. The recep­tion­ist could­n’t find my record on her com­put­er and it took a con­fer­ence of sev­er­al staff mem­bers to final­ly locate the order… Con­tin­ue read­ing Beneath the Surface

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The Woman Who Went to Work to Heal

I’m sure I’ve told the sto­ry before but it bears repeat­ing. Years ago, I was invit­ed to speak at a nation­al com­pa­ny con­fer­ence and it was stun­ning­ly dif­fer­ent from oth­er con­fer­ences I’d attend­ed. Instead of sit-down meals where atten­dees were served, food was avail­able all the time — you just had to get it for… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Woman Who Went to Work to Heal

On Emotional Freedom

After I post­ed “Lead­er­ship and Shame” on August 14th, I noticed oth­er relat­ed arti­cles appeared. Samatha S. Hall post­ed “Co-depen­­den­­cy and Rela­tion­ships,” regard­ing the way shame trans­lates into prob­lem­at­ic cop­ing mech­a­nisms. Kate Nass­er pub­lished “Lead­ing & Inspir­ing Through Shame?” about avoid­ing the temp­ta­tion to shame oth­ers as a moti­va­tion­al tech­nique. And Vin­cent Nix shared some… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Emo­tion­al Freedom

Leadership and Shame

Shame is that ter­ri­ble emo­tion that iso­lates us in a par­tic­u­lar­ly nasty way. To expe­ri­ence shame is to be con­demned and, in part at least, it is we who are doing the con­demn­ing. In the end the expe­ri­ence just leaves us to hurt. Brené Brown, the writer, speak­er and researcher cur­rent­ly most asso­ci­at­ed with the… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­er­ship and Shame