Broken World

Because I can­not think about it I keep think­ing about it. The end­less shak­ing beneath my feet, all foun­da­tions bro­ken, turned to pow­der. In the street the screams and too soon the quick dirty wave, immense as the cold king­dom in which the earth itself drifts. So many hearts snapped shut at once and then the dark pollen of fear, a radi­a­tion… Con­tin­ue read­ing Bro­ken World

On the Cave of the Intrapersonal

We seem to be more aware than ever that suc­cess in busi­ness, as in life, requires self-aware­­ness. Self-aware­­ness offers us the advan­tages of under­stand­ing our own think­ing and bias­es, gives us greater capac­i­ty for emo­tion­al reg­u­la­tion, and a deep­er appre­ci­a­tion for our val­ues. “Emo­tion­al intel­li­gence” is only one the lat­est prod­ucts of a long his­to­ry… Con­tin­ue read­ing On the Cave of the Intrapersonal

The Hump as Teacher

It is what we have to get over. It means fac­ing and over­com­ing an obsta­cle of some kind, usu­al­ly involv­ing some kind of action that feels uncom­fort­able or stren­u­ous in some way. Often, it comes at the begin­ning of a project. “I just need to get over the hump of get­ting start­ed, then I’ll be okay.” … Con­tin­ue read­ing The Hump as Teacher

On Expectations

What we know is that our expec­ta­tions of one anoth­er strong­ly influ­ence whether or not we feel con­nect­ed or dis­tant in a work­ing rela­tion­ship. One stream of log­ic around giv­ing and receiv­ing feed­back, espe­cial­ly of the “per­for­mance” kind, is that it always makes sense to first clar­i­fy and express those expec­ta­tions — espe­cial­ly hid­den or… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Expec­ta­tions