Tag Archives: complexity
Leadership and Laughter
February 2023 Do you want to be an unf*cker? As I’ve mentioned before in the Leadership Library, at some point during the pandemic I came across Erica Schreiber’s light-hearted blog post, “When F*cked Is Funny.” It’s about how she uses … Continue reading
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Leadership, Ubuntu and Evolving the WEIRD Mindset
January 2023 People do not perceive worlds but enact them. Different mindsets bring forth different worlds. –Susanne Cook-Greuter and Ntyatyambo Sibanda “I am because we are“ I recently attended a fascinating Growth Edge Network community presentation – materials from which … Continue reading
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Leadership Library Review: “Lessons from Plants” by Beronda Montgomery (Harvard, 2022)
November 2022 We would do well in our interactions with others to consider how we take care of plants. For the most part, we begin from the expectation that the plant has the ability to grow and thrive. When the … Continue reading
Leadership Library Review: “Unleash Your Complexity Genius: Growing Your Inner Capacity to Lead” by Jennifer Garvey Berger and Carolyn Coughlin (Stanford, 2022)
September 2022 It turns out that when we need to handle complexity the most, we often are least able to…Complexity tends to trigger us, to make us anxious or afraid or overwhelmed. When this happens, our nervous system creates a … Continue reading
Leadership Library Review: “Leader as Healer” by Nicholas Janni (LID, 2022)
August 2022 The cultures in which toxic leaders hold the greatest power are those that uphold the outmoded belief that traits like empathy, vulnerability and connection equate to weakness…Executors endorse these biases, while Healers dismantle them. The Leader as Healer … Continue reading
Leadership, Depression and Possibility in These Times
April 2022 If you are not depressed, you are (probably) out of touch….Yes, people are depressed. But a diagnosis of physical or emotional depression does not take into account the agency of the human spirit, the agency of our better … Continue reading
Cosmic Mischief in the Leadership Context
January 2022 In rivers and streams across the globe lives a tube-shaped carnivore. It paralyzes and captures prey with a crown of tentacles, then draws it in through its mouth (which also serves as its anus). – “Hydra DNA Reveals … Continue reading
Leadership Library Review: “Navigating the Cultural Shift and Fostering a Developmental Society” (Coaches Rising Interview with Tomas Björkman)
November 2021 We think that we can negotiate with our planetary boundaries and are all subject to the fixed market, when it’s actually the opposite. – Tomas Bjorkman What are the big take-aways? Note: This podcast dialogue speaks not just … Continue reading
Leadership Library Review — “Proud AND Critical: And-Thinking Applied to Critical Race Theory” by Barry Johnson (Polarity Partnerships, September 2021)
October 2021 If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright…./For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it./If only we’re brave enough to be … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, civil rights, complexity, courage, emergence, love, poetry, polarities, risk, vulnerability
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Leadership Library Review — “Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir” by Ursula M. Burns (Amistad, 2021)
August 2021 “I could run this place, I remember thinking.” – Ursula Burns What are the big take-aways? This engrossing memoir by the former CEO of Xerox, and the first African American woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company, is … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, authenticity, complexity, confidence, courage, identity, polarities, vulnerability, women
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