“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou
As a way of closing out this year and welcoming in the next, I offer you a poem – of hope and possibility, of the beauty inside us and around us, and of the immense possibility we each have on [...]
I love the quote below – in fact, I joke that I make my living traveling the world helping leaders to ask good questions and listen deeply to what they’re hearing. It means sorting [...]
My good friend Colleen’s father died this week – Retired General Richard X. Larkin. I never met him, but know a lot about his character in the daughter he raised – a warrior in the truest sense – [...]
Imagine this … you’re in conversation – you speak, they respond, connecting, building – you listen and link elsewhere – more back and forth and someone summarizes [...]
This past weekend we’ve witnessed a tragedy of unspeakable magnitude … The Polish president, senior members of the cabinet and military leaders were all killed in an air disaster. This is ever [...]
David Whyte tells another story from his Galapagos adventure… one night on the expedition ship they were moored in a cove in a storm … everyone was asleep when David woke up sensing a different [...]
The poet David Whyte – from Yorkshire in England … trained as a marine zoologist and working in the Galapagos, pursuing every marine zoologist’s dream in that ecological paradise… While by [...]
If you go out and confirm the 10,000 things, this is an illusion … If you let the 10,000 things confirm you, this is enlightenment. – Dogen Zenji This quote comes from the 1200s … The [...]
In a previous post I spoke of Carl’s near miss at the beach… It’s such a rich story, I want to unpack another implication for leadership as follows… Humility and respect for what “we [...]
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