I found this quote in Phil Dourado‘s admirably snappy free book chapter for February.
Leadership is emotional. Leadership deals with feelings. Leadership is made up of dreams inspiration excitement desire, pride, care, passion, and love. The areas of our lives where we show the strongest leadership – including our communities, families, organizations, products, services, hobbies, and customers – are where we’re most in love. Jim Clemmer
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
I shot this in a single eight-minute take, which is in the spirit of an experience of Ralf Wetzel’s workshop, Leading from the Clown. Clown training is probably the deepest and most challenging work I’ve done. Enjoy.
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
The power of small gestures and noticing
I like Matt’s post about identity on Facebook. Matt’s blog is way up my must-read scale because he’s in touch with his own shadow. Key quote: My take is that
These two posts crossed my path recently, and seem related: First, Quinn Norton has a terrific essay called Everything is Broken. This is the central point: It’s hard to explain
Dave Pollard does a great summary of Nassim Taleb’s thinking. I’m very interested in all the cognitive biases listed there; it’s so easy for us humans to think we know
Over coffee this morning, Alejandro Ribo Anne McCrossan and I shared some favourite Python moments. He’s just posted one of his. We talked about the state of the world and
