We Are All Crew-Members

This post focuses on the first competence of Emotional Intelligence*, Emotional Self-awareness (contained within the Self-Awareness Domain): Leaders high in emotional self-awareness are attuned to their inner signals, recognizing how their feelings affect them and their job performance. They are attuned to their guiding values and can often intuit the best course of action, seeing…

Any regular reader of this blog knows I am a big Seth Godin fan. I just read another great post on his blog (you can read it here). In the post he talks about the resistance of (certain factions in) business to important changes. One example being the elimination of child labor and the complaint…

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on — it is going on when you don’t have strength. – Napoleon Bonaparte Having the strength to go on is capacity. You either have it at any given moment, or you don’t. Want more capacity? Train… Whatever you’ll need when things get tough, develop greater amounts of that. Then…

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. – Rumi Your true wisdom, the “teaching of your Soul” is sometimes difficult to hear, but always available. It is not what the media might try to tell you…

There are many resources for the “how” of anything. If you want to be more productive, successful, have better relationships, get promoted, start a business, . . . and on and on, there’s no shortage of resources that will lay out exactly what you must do to have whatever it is you want. They are…

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.” – Rainer Maria Rilke If you’re not “failing” you’re likely not doing anything worthy of your efforts and talents. Consider you have two (at least… ) sacred aspects: your labor and talents. Your labor is your effort, your hard work, your doing…