Life, Career, Leadership
Leaders are faced daily with workplace demands that require more effort, more time, and more results. However, the demand for "more" isn't always just the product of our work environment but can come from our own internal drives. That is a good thing but is there ever a time when it’s okay to say “enough?”
Read MoreI talked with a leader who was in the quandary of feeling she wanted to do one thing but thinking she should do something else. In essence, her head and heart weren’t in agreement. She knew what convention expected of her, even what the demands were that she placed upon herself but meeting those expectations wasn’t satisfying her emotionally.
Read MoreNo one is perfect and few fully adjusted. In other words, most of us are like cracked pots: We have the promise of potential but with a few leaks and if the strain gets too great our insides show. The goal isn’t to repair the cracks – they’re life long – but to make our inside beautiful so that when we’re strained people experience grace instead of grief. After all, isn’t that the kind of leader you’d want leading your enterprise?
Read MoreDiscerning the story of our life can be very rewarding but like most things we do having an example helps, especially one that enables us to feel less strange about who we are.
Read MoreIt’s said to be “more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.” In this light the demand to know direction and “do something” isn’t always a leader’s best counsel. In fact, the busyness of doing can get in the way of the business of being and become a way to defer taking a look at yourself.
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