Month: August 2013
How to discover if something is important
The master was strolling through a field of wheat when a disciple came up to him: “I can’t tell which is the true path. What’s the secret? What does that ring on your right hand mean?” asked the master. Continue reading
Book Recommendation: Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley
IN HER PIONEERING BESTSELLER
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World (Revised Edition)
Margaret Wheatley showed how the “New Science”—revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology that are overturning centuries-old images of the universe—provides powerful insights into the design, leadership, and management of organizations. Continue reading
Book recommendation : Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl’s imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. Continue reading
Forgive: a vivid sense of impersonal good will
Forgive Us Our Trespasses As We Forgive Them That Trespass Against Us
The technique of forgiveness is simple enough, and not very difficult to manage when you understand how. The only thing that is essential is willingness to forgive. Continue reading
No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. Continue reading
Where is home?
Leadership is about tapping the energy to create something that matters deeply
The following simple definition of leadership has proved quite helpful in change projects over the years: the capacity of a human community—people living and working together—to bring forth new realities.
Another way to say this is that leadership energizes. Leadership breathes life into an enterprise, without which nothing truly new can emerge. The word inspire, long associated with leadership, derives from the Latin inspirare, literally “to breathe life into.” Continue reading
Solutions emerge spontaneously…
What has a crisis done to you personally? What ever the situation, you drew back, contracted inside, and felt the grip of anxiety. This state of contracted awareness is the enemy of finding a solution. Continue reading
Our Father
This simple statement in itself constitutes a definite and complete system of theology. Continue reading
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