Going Deep on a Friday
On some of the listserves I follow, Friday is considered a day when it is okay to post things that are funny or frivolous. So why not make it the day to post things that are deep, too? Sometimes it feels like it’s all we ...
Category: Individual Development
Mood and Creativity
Lisa Junker (ASAE & The Center staff and Acronym blogger) commented on my last post about the “inner work life” article in HBR, pointing to another specific point in the article:I was especially interested in Amabile ...
Understanding Inner Work Life
As promised, here is some more about psychology and business from the Harvard Business Review article by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer about “inner work life.” The article follows in the footsteps of Goleman and his e ...
Getting Past the Easy Part
Thanks to Chris Bailey for linking to my recent post quoting the poet David Whyte. I included that quote because the word “conversation” had leapt out at me. Interestingly, it was the word “belong” that jumped out for Ch ...
Self Awareness for Groups
I was working with a client last week that was immersed in a relatively difficult “who’s in charge” conversation. At one point in the conversation, one of the participants said (I’m paraphrasing here):I’ve noticed that w ...
Denial
The cover story of Associations Now this month has a psychological bent to it: it’s about confronting your past in order to create a better future. The author, psychiatrist Keith Ablow, argues this is true for both indiv ...
Having Enough v. The Next Level
Here’s some more from Sutton’s book about assholes, that also ties into the post before that about the “next level.” Sutton has a section about “how to stop your inner jerk from getting out.” In it, he points to a proble ...
The Next Level
A mentor asked me an important question the other day. She said, “What does the next level look like for you?” The question caught me off guard, because we were discussing a very specific issue at the time. But the quest ...
The (Negative) Power of Context
Thanks to Signal v Noise for pointing me to an amazing story in the Washington Post. It seems that in January of this year, the Post arranged to have Joshua Bell, a world famous violinist, to play his $3.5 million Stradi ...
George Orwell and Business Jargon
More on the language theme… Guy Kawasaki is also interested in language, as he reprinted on his blog George Orwell’s entire essay (from 1946) about the decay of the English language. Orwell’s focus is on politics, but I ...