If you search the terms, “vulnerable leadership” or “vulnerable leader,” you will find some good articles, such as those here, here, and here. Clearly, they explain, there is a distinction between a weak leader and a vulnerable one, a person who runs away from mistakes and insecurities, and one who is flexible, can learn, and… Continue reading The Motive for Vulnerability
Art, Self-Knowledge and Leadership
For many years I have been interested in the connections people make regarding their leadership when they get out of their verbal capacities and tap their non-verbal ones. With the permission of a past client (she’s reviewed this post), I share the image below. When I asked her one day what art she included in her… Continue reading Art, Self-Knowledge and Leadership
How I Feel About Surveys
I was reminded this morning in a conversation with a friend of an employee survey I had some contact with many years ago. The setting was a big Federal agency with a local budget over a billion dollars. They had conducted the survey in the previous month and the results had just come out. Like… Continue reading How I Feel About Surveys
Passages (a leadership poem)
Narrative Leadership is an odd quantity, isn’t it? No one seems to know what it is, but we seem pretty sure we can figure it out. As a subject, leadership never sits still long enough for its essence to be grasped, and yet it seems to promise an essence. Despite the subtle changes, it seems… Continue reading Passages (a leadership poem)