Harvard Business Review asked why so few women CEOs made it to their Best Performing CEO list. My reply appeared in the March 2010 print edition of HBR.
With one ounce of boldness and two of anxiety I submitted a requested article to the editor of a business journal this past week. Why the anxiety? I used the word “soul” – not just once but twice.
You would be amazed at how much it means to an employee, peer, customer or vendor when a busy executive takes the time to write and send a note via snail mail in this day of instant messages, voice mail, texting, twitter, email etc.
All the energy that ever was, is, and will be exists now.
All matter is energy. You are energy. You are matter. You matter.
You mattered long before your soul and body met.
You matter now and into eternity.
Fish don’t see the water that they swim in. It is an invisible part of their world. Likewise, we do not see our see-ing, the lenses or meaning-making systems through which we perceive, interpret and act on the world around us. Unlike fish, however, occasionally we have an opportunity to see and change our lens.
Twenty years ago I was fortunate to experience a lens changing event. Instantaneously everything changed, yet nothing about the situation was different except for the way I was seeing it.
I don’t like looking over the edge of a cliff. I don’t even look at others when they do it. Makes my stomach flip. So our eight day white water rafting trip in the Grand Canyon was not only beautiful and challenging. It was downright (punny) terrifying at times, but it is where I learned great lessons about leading fear and that donkeys can be smarter than humans. First, the donkeys.
