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The Cure for It All
May 2024 “Go gently today” Recently I closed a training with a team of a dozen super-smart, purpose-driven, busy and effective leaders with one of my favorite poems as a vital reminder to each of us for how to navigate … Continue reading
I’itoi and the Leader in the Maze
April 2024 Amazement Just a few weeks ago on vacation in Tucson, Arizona, I’m buying a couple of pairs of earrings from Carolyn Reino and chatting with her at her outdoor stall in a small courtyard of shops. The shops … Continue reading
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Calling Off the Search: The Still Point in Leadership Decision-Making
March 2024 Whatever the conditions of the body in this moment, whether you’re incredibly comfortable or incredibly uncomfortable, whatever the conditions of the mind, whether your mind is empty and peaceful or full of different thoughts and agitated, or a … Continue reading
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Leadership and the Highest Expression of Courage
Common Dominant Worldview Manifestations #25: Aggression as highest expression of courage Common Indigenous Worldview Manifestations #25: Generosity as highest expression of courage – Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez, from the Introduction to Restoring the Kinship Worldview In capitalist … Continue reading
Leadership Library Review: ServiceSpace AI
January 2024 AI + Wisdom: Can ancient wisdom and modern tech find a middle path? How do we work at the intersection of algorithmic intelligence, evolutionary intuition, and collective emergence? We’ve launched more 80 bots with prominent authors, indigenous wisdom … Continue reading
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The Top Four Most Influential Ideas on My Leadership Coaching Practice in 2023
December 2023 INCLUSIVE ORGANIZATIONS You come in and you can do the job. But what’s sitting above and beyond the doing of the job? How do you live in that environment? How do you live as part of that community? … Continue reading
Deep Curiosity as a Leadership Move in These Times
November 2023 It has become rare to practice deep listening. Instead, we cancel people instead of calling them in (as Loretta Ross says) with accountability, meaning we are more likely to shame, judge, or dehumanize the people we disagree with…This … Continue reading
Courageous Authenticity and the Future of DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging)
October 2023 You come in and you can do the job. But what’s sitting above and beyond the doing of the job? How do you live in that environment? How do you live as part of that community? Because the … Continue reading
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Ethical Leadership and Intercultural Intelligence
September 2023 Redefining ethical leadership Following George Floyd’s 2020 murder and the consequent escalation in racial reckoning in the United States and beyond, my concept of ethical leadership expanded three years ago to include an explicit (rather than implied, as … Continue reading
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Leadership, Innocence and Artificial Intelligence (Narrow Way III)
August 2023 Toxic versus liberating innocence In my last two blog posts I’ve been exploring the leadership path of the “narrow way” (or tao in Chinese) and the clear voice of leadership “innocence.” From my perspective as an executive coach, … Continue reading
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