The Leadership Cave

It’s a tru­ism old­er than the hills: lead­ers must at times make deci­sions that do not make oth­er peo­ple hap­py. Because such deci­sions involve con­fi­dence, sen­si­tiv­i­ty and the use of indi­vid­u­at­ed author­i­ty, the process may cause those who lead to come up against their biggest adver­sary — them­selves. Lone­ly at the top means mak­ing judg­ments… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Lead­er­ship Cave

The Practice of Reflective Leadership

For more than thir­ty years I’ve been fas­ci­nat­ed by how as lead­ers we increase our self-knowl­­edge through reflec­tion and how in turn this helps us: • gain insight into our beliefs, val­ues and moti­va­tions • chal­lenge unhelp­ful thought pat­terns and behav­iors • increase sen­si­tiv­i­ty to the needs and emo­tions of oth­ers • stay ground­ed and resilient… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Prac­tice of Reflec­tive Leadership

We Are Enough

Not long ago a client strug­gling with his con­di­tion­ing asked a telling ques­tion: “If I can’t be sure that the mes­sages I’m send­ing myself are true, how on earth can I trust my own judg­ment?” The con­di­tion­ing he bat­tled had to do with his con­stant wor­ries that he was mak­ing too many mis­takes in his… Con­tin­ue read­ing We Are Enough

On Saying What You Mean

Some­times when a per­son becomes ill, their skin becomes sen­si­tive. Mere­ly brush­ing the hair on an arm becomes painful. Some­thing like that seems to be hap­pen­ing in orga­ni­za­tions right now., sen­si­tive skin being a metaphor for a painful hes­i­ta­tion to talk in a mean­ing­ful way to oth­ers.  Will keeps his video feed off on almost… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Say­ing What You Mean