Running into Other People’s Unconscious

In Mar­i­lyn Mon­roe’s last inter­view, titled “My Own Pri­vate View of Myself,” she explains what fame has meant to her. Con­duct­ed only a month or so before she died, her words are res­o­nant with both strength and melan­choly, offer­ing a glimpse into her inner world. “…when you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in… Con­tin­ue read­ing Run­ning into Oth­er People’s Unconscious

Growth Now

By growth I mean a positive change in the effectiveness of a person in their leadership capacities. This is actually harder to pull off than it sounds like it might be. We are built with strong, stabilizing internal mechanisms that show up as behavioral patterns etched into our personalities. To change that stuff means something… Continue reading Growth Now

The Power of Mea Culpa

As a coach who works with all kinds of lead­ers, it’s inevitable that a cer­tain per­cent­age don’t come vol­un­tar­i­ly. That does­n’t mean they aren’t excit­ed to work with me; it means some­body else has said they need to find some­one to work with — in some cas­es with an implied “or else.” What I find… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Pow­er of Mea Culpa

The Nature of Negative Assumptions

By neg­a­tive assump­tions, I mean beliefs that you or I might hold about oth­ers that label their char­ac­ter or motives in pejo­ra­tive ways. See­ing anoth­er per­son as weak, for exam­ple, or fun­da­men­tal­ly self­ish are exam­ples of neg­a­tive assump­tions.  Such con­clu­sions have a lot more pow­er than we might expect. For one thing, neg­a­tive assump­tions about… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Nature of Neg­a­tive Assumptions