FIVE INTERNAL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP
Here is a brief summary of what leaders must deal with internally, almost all the time. 11- Understanding the difference between your work and your job. Work is your passion, what you care about the most whether reaching goals, accomplishing big projects or meaningful personal relationships with colleagues. Your job is what you
0Contrived, Corporate and Controlled – By Design
It took me several days to figure out what was bothering me and it was the same nagging feeling that arose 50 years ago in New York about an economy based on SPEND, BUY, WASTE, WANT, and BORROW. I called it the cycle of the new economic imperatives and my conflict came about because of
0LENT 2014 Religious or Not, More Light: Reading the Signs
I have had a long and running conversation, mostly with myself, about these 40+ days that begin in the liturgical calendar with Ash Wednesday, just after Shrove or Fat Tuesday, and continue until just before Easter. Historically this was a time of fasting and prayer in the organized church, a penitential season of spiritual preparation
0BEING A HEAD OF SCHOOL
The Santa Fe Leadership Center set out recently to explore some of the dynamics of being a new head of an independent, private school, partly in preparation for one of our Seminars and partly to find out what people in these positions were experiencing that we might be able to address in a thoughtful, systematic
0SPILLS AND FALLS
Watching some of the Winter Olympics, the most accomplished athletes in their respective sports competing for medals while representing their countries, one cannot help but have deep admiration and respect for the hours and years of training and preparation. Those competitors must be practitioners of the 10,000 hours to reach a level of mastery that
0WORK and the APPEARANCE of PRODUCTIVITY
James Surowiecki, writing in the January 27 issue of The New Yorker entitled his article “The Cult of Overwork.” He makes the point by noting that thirty years ago, the best paid workers in the U.S. were much less likely to work long days than low-paid workers were. That, of course, has all changed and
0RESTORATION – RENEWAL – REGENERATION
For those who work hard, who work long hours, and are deeply engrossed in a particular job, a common fault seems to be that they do not take time out very often for their own restoration, renewal and regeneration. The missing ingredient is often a plan that includes a commitment to honor the process of
0WHETHER THE WEATHER
For the past nine years, one of my office windows, the one I faced while sitting at my desk, gave me a wonderful view east and thus I saw many glorious sunrises in northern New Mexico. I am also linked to the weather wunderground (www.wunderground) which gives me sufficient data to know current and future
0STRESS, ANXIETY AND RELIEF
In Louis Menand’s New Yorker (Jan27) review of Scott Stossel’s book, “My Age of Anxiety” (Knopf) Menand gives a fairly good historical perspective on how the topic of anxiety has been researched, described and treated. And, like Stossel’s condition, not a whole lot has changed in the so-called human condition of the reaction to the
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