Acting humbly is the result of humility. However, the word "acting" can leave the wrong impression, as if we're not genuine but using humility as a demeanor in order to get something.
Read MoreWhich statement seems truer for you:
“When you know what you can’t do, then you know what you can do.
“When you believe in what is possible, then you know what you can do.”
Read MoreWhile mediation is part of a manager's role, it may not fit in the central job description but could be a sub-role to a larger task. That larger task, particularly in culture change, is our work with others to adapt, to learn new experience - gaining new perspectives - while moving them to a decision.
Read MoreI subscribe to the idea that all risk is personal (if you’re in the insurance business, you may be inclined to stop reading right here-I hope you don’t). While risk can be monetized for profit that’s several steps removed from the tightness-in-your-chest kind, the kind that always demands two questions be answered: what does it mean for… and what could happen to me?
Read MoreIn brief but broad strokes, our living can be thought of as in and across four dimensions. I call these the “Four Maps by Which We Live.” What makes them stand out for us is their being a source of conflicts, emotions, experiences, and defenses that extend through our private lives to our relationships, and even our workplaces.
Read MoreWe are at once born with potential and coming into that same potential. It’s something of an “already but not yet” movement. The interplay is what we experience as growth.
Read MoreLeaders do things. Very often that “doing” entails change. This drive to do something mixed with ambition and wrapped in personality appeals to some while repulsing others. Leadership, however, isn't fully in our drive, ambition, or personality but in the influence we exert upon those who like and dislike us as its result.
It doesn't mean we are to be captive to the opinion of others rather we are to capture their opinion.
Read MoreHow is it possible that something as ethereal as faith can be related to leadership? I believe it is, in fact, think we ignore it at our peril.
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