Tag Archives: vulnerability

Nature, Human Nature and Leadership

Posted on May 1, 2022 by Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC

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 →

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Cosmic Mischief in the Leadership Context

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC

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 →

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Leadership Library Review — “Proud AND Critical: And-Thinking Applied to Critical Race Theory” by Barry Johnson (Polarity Partnerships, September 2021)

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC

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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Leadership Library Review — “Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir” by Ursula M. Burns (Amistad, 2021)

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC

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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Leadership Library Review: Three Excellent Resources for Understanding Race, Caste and Antiracism

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC

March 2021 What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of … Continue reading →

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Leadership Library Review — “Beginning” in “Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words” by David Whyte

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC

January 2021 A collection of short essays that is astounding in its loveliness and profundity all the way through, Consolations (Many Rivers, Rev. 2019) is one of those books that can always speak to me at any moment – as … Continue reading →

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Leadership Library Review — A Trifecta of Soul Balms: Three Books for Autumn in the Pandemic

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC

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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Leadership Library Review: “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” by John Lewis

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC

August 2020 “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” by John Lewis (New York Times, 7/30/20) “Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called … Continue reading →

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For Leaders, What Does “Planning” Look Like Now?

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC

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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Leadership Library Review: Seven Things I Am Learning from My Clients in the Pandemic

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC

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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