Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday is Today

This one sure­ly goes in the cat­e­go­ry of “lead­er­ship poems”. A friend passed it along to me and I’ve repost­ed from this site. Tru­ly beau­ti­ful. A won­der­ful day to hon­or Nel­son Man­dela, feel and express grat­i­tude. [Adden­dum: 7/19/08: Miki Sax­on of Lead­er­ship Turn and David Zinger of Slack­er Man­ag­er point to a fine arti­cle about… Con­tin­ue read­ing Nel­son Mandela’s 90th Birth­day is Today

The One You Feed

There’s a well-known leg­end about two wolves: A Chero­kee elder was teach­ing his chil­dren about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to them. “It is a ter­ri­ble fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil — he is anger, envy, sor­row, regret, greed, arro­gance, self-pity, guilt, resent­ment, infe­ri­or­i­ty, lies,… Con­tin­ue read­ing The One You Feed

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On Speaking Up at Work

Late­ly I’ve been doing more work than ever relat­ed to speak­ing up at work. Typ­i­cal­ly I use the book, The Coura­geous Mes­sen­ger, that I co-wrote twelve years ago, as the hand-out for the class. I love teach­ing this mate­r­i­al because it brings peo­ple togeth­er who are will­ing to acknowl­edge that they need some help and… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Speak­ing Up at Work

Morning Glories

Recent­ly a friend, founder of a suc­cess­ful finan­cial ser­vices firm, shared this obser­va­tion with me: . “My per­cep­tion is that peo­ple des­per­ate­ly need depth con­veyed in a sim­plis­tic man­ner that they can grasp and use in their dai­ly liv­ing.” The con­text is a con­ver­sa­tion between us about the jour­ney each per­son faces in mov­ing out of indi­vid­ual… Con­tin­ue read­ing Morn­ing Glories