Germane Insights

ON LEADING AND BE-ING HUMAN

Category: Life Lessons

Leadership

Work as a Spiritual Practice

Do you ever experience your work as a spiritual practice?
A man laments to his rabbi: “I’m frustrated that my work leaves me no time for study or prayer.”
The rabbi replies: “Perhaps your work is more pleasing to G-d than study or prayer.”

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Will You Leave Them a Ladle of Memories?

This is my great aunt Celia with her husband, my great Uncle Jake. As a young woman Auntie Celia emigrated from Russia to the U.S. She served as domestic help to a family member. She was not formally educated. She was wise, wise enough to leave them a ladle of memories.

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Emotional Intelligence

A Personal Story about Touching Reality and Why it Matters

This is a personal story that sealed an important lesson into my being. When we refuse to touch the reality of a thing, it will express itself at another time and in another place. It will keep expressing itself until it finds a way to wake us.

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Leadership

Face the Ogre

You must jump through the hoop of Fire, and

Skate to the middle of the Pond

to face the Ogre

So Fear…

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Corporate Fear

Our organizations are built on foundations of fear that retard progress. Where and how do we learn to recognize and overcome our fears? In this post, I turn to Shamanism for answers.

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