Emotional Intelligence
Silence
TweetBE IN SILENCE
What Comes Up?
Together
From Silence
We Created
This
The sight of the stars makes me
Reflect, sleep, dream
and
Be still
Be Not swept away in the fear
Be Not afraid of Profound Silence
Where thoughts slow
and enjoyment is now.
It is In the space between
Where redemption song sings
In the deep of the soul,
that truth lies,
and cannot be known,
Until the body falls away
and truth flies joyously
in freedom
into the ... Read more »
Corporate Fear
TweetAccording to leadership and organizational experts Jeffrey Pfeffer and Margaret Wheatley, fear is both pervasive and detrimental in the workplace.
Organizations… are cluttered with control mechanisms that paralyze employees and leaders alike. These mechanisms seem to derive from our fear — our fear of one another, of a harsh competitive world, and of the natural processes of growth and change that ... Read more »
Leading With Paradox – Notes from a Feminist’s Son
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She was obsessed with fairness
A woman of great certainty who saw the world in black and white.
Later in her life she asked me to teach her about gray.
He was gentle, sweet and unreservedly supportive.
Tony Schwartz
His mother, Felice Schwartz, founded Catalyst, an organization that expands opportunities for women and business using each to promote and evolve the other. You ... Read more »
I’ve Rewired My Brain, Now What?
TweetMost of my work involves executive coaching and consulting to leaders regarding change, developing leadership teams, innovating in the work place and the like. I also work with a small number of psychotherapy patients, because I love to see people blossom regardless of the garden’s name or location. Sometimes, maybe often, the learning from one garden applies to the other.
This ... Read more »
The Experiment – Reflections from Coach & Coachee
TweetTwo years after the end of our coaching engagement my client Helen and I discussed what would become this post.
Step 1. The Water
Helen is a Director at a major bio-medical company and designated successor to the current Executive Vice-president of HR. To prepare for that role, Helen and her manager engage me as a coach. When we first meet, Helen ... Read more »
Been Duped? Don’t Want to Be Duped Again? Read This.
TweetDuped Again
Over the past few months I’ve been engaged in several conversations about how we get fooled in business and in life. The first discussion was with Dorothy Dalton, executive search and career consultant, after she posted an article about being duped by a colleague. The second series of conversations took place after the discovery that a ... Read more »
Empathy Improves Team Performance
TweetMichael is a sales manager in a high tech company. He is very task focused and finds it difficult to simultaneously drive goals and attend to relationships. During a 360 interview one of his direct reports provides the following feedback. “Michael takes the wind right out of my sails. When he called the other day, I was telling him about progress my guys were making on a ... Read more »
Empathy, Product Design and Increased Sales
TweetImagine you are the V.P. of small-mid-size trucks and SUV division for a U.S. automaker. While visiting a dealership you see a woman get into her new truck which has just undergone a routine 5000 mile maintenance check. She carries a laptop and purse on one arm and her one year old child in the other. She reaches awkwardly across her body to retrieve keys from her purse ... Read more »
Transformational Leadership and Ego Development
TweetRegardless of how they name it, leadership experts are calling for transformational leadership -”the ability to engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality” (Burns, 1978). Few, however, directly identify the cornerstone of transformational leadership – ego development.
In recent years we have seen a variety of labels and ... Read more »
