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The Poetry of Questions (and Vice Versa)
March 2023 When we look at how inquiry-is-change — how inquiry-and-change is a simultaneous moment in human systems — we start seeing the power of it. It is something I’ve called ‘the exponential inquiry effect’ to indicate how our first … Continue reading
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 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
Nature, Human Nature and Leadership
May 1, 2022 [T]here is great solace in remembering that what we call human nature, with all of its terrors and transcendences and violent contradictions, is a humble subset of nature itself: In nature, where stars are always being born … 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
Leadership Library Review — “The Science of Life and Wellbeing: Integrating the New Science of Consciousness with the Ancient Science of Consciousness” by Frederick Chavalit Tsao (Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, Vol. 18, 2021)
February 2022 [S]o, with a higher elevation of awakening of consciousness, with the practice of mindfulness toward oneness, and with the new worldview that is arising, by the year 2030 we are going to be looking at systemic change quite … Continue reading
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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 — A Trifecta of Soul Balms: Three Books for Autumn in the Pandemic
September 2020 “Joy is the kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” –David Steindl-Rast A Trifecta of Soul Balms: Three Books for Autumn in the Pandemic Are you nervous about the fall and winter? I am. Perhaps like … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, confidence, courage, creativity, disruption, emergence, love, mindfulness, neuroscience, paradox, poetry, purpose, resilience, spirituality, story-telling, vulnerability
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For Leaders, What Does “Planning” Look Like Now?
May 2020 For Leaders, What Does “Planning” Look Like Now? Whether we choose to adopt this perspective or not, we humans are being individually and collectively transformed – as a species – by the Covid-19 global phenomenon. The pandemic is … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, courage, Covid-19, creativity, emergence, pandemic, paradox, poetry, powerful questions, risk, vulnerability
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Leadership Library Review: Seven Things I Am Learning from My Clients in the Pandemic
April 2020 What I Am Learning from My Clients In the weeks since the pandemic began I have been astounded, heartened and elevated by everything that my leadership coaching and consulting clients are teaching me and – insofar as I … Continue reading
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Tagged authenticity, complexity, courage, Covid-19, creativity, love, mindfulness, pandemic, polarities, powerful questions, resilience, risk, vulnerability
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