Month: November 2011

• Alienation and the feeling of time

  Activity slows the sense of time; passivity speeds it up. Spend a day making a craft you love and you enter a state described by artists, athletes, and saints in different terms, but is a contemplative state. This state is hyper-aware. The rush of passing time is suspended. It feels like finding one’s purpose and…

• To A Discouraged Leader

  You walked into the meeting so upbeat at the opportunity to share your vision. But even as you talked, you could see the resistance forming behind the eyes of some listeners — the usual suspects, whose first reaction to most new ideas is to throw up a smokescreen of “no”. Before you finished your first…

• Leaders Avoid The Adversarial Voice

  As most managers will tell you, the hard part is the people. Policy and processes are matters of analysis and intelligence, and can be taught. But getting the people to be what the organization needs — managers who’ve spent time in a trench will tell you this is tougher. Which is why I say that…