“Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers.” [...]

I’m not so sure about Jaffe’s premise that the rich have no mythology around money but I do think he’s onto something here. Money is just money – the rest is interpretation. Watch for my upcoming podcast on deeper “secrets” of  money – there’s no accident it’s called currency!
The Secret Meaning of Money
By Mark [...]

A few years ago, I taught Ethics to Drexel U students who were just entering the business world. According to their evaluation forms, their work lives were deeply impacted by class. However, ethics is a living, breathing, adaptive science and can’t be taught like Math. I’ve learned from years of leadership [...]

There is an emerging awareness of a high return on investment in principals but we still don’t really know, and certainly can’t adequately measure, the value of values. True leadership requires respecting your own inner GPS and creating a workplace ethic for principled and inspired action.
We are past the tipping point [...]

The European Business Review

The Soulless Organization: Overcoming pornographic management

By Stephen Long, PhD
Fear ignites the survival instinct in even the most ambitious people. Corporate values such as teamwork and mutual support fly out the window when people are preoccupied with survival and subsequently lose their focus on growth-oriented initiatives. It’s no [...]

I felt an immediacy about being in the remote Amazon jungle where I stayed with the headhunting Shuar tribe. I felt the same thing last summer when I stayed in a remote, primitive village in Malawi, Africa’s poorest country. Both places called me to a presence that I don’t usually experience here in my cushy life in Pennsylvania.

There’s a version of the Golden Rule in just about every culture and religion. Here are a few:

From the Baha’I Faith:  “Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which thou doest not.”
From Buddhism: “Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.”
From [...]

This has been around the internet so many times, I hesitated to post it. But the wisdom is timeless and worth reading over time. I originally posted this as George Carlin’s piece. I’ve since found out from his daughter, Kelly Carlin, that he didn’t write it. In his denial of authorship, he said he thought [...]

Here are some of the things we talk about during coaching sessions:

WHAT YOU ARE WORKING ON
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Listening to Winter
The trees have shed their colorful autumn robes.
Winter is raging through the dark, empty branches
and I am listening.
I am listening to the roar and to the quiet of winter.
I am listening to a beauty
that sometimes remains unseen.
I am listening.
I am listening to the seed hidden in the earth.
I am listening to the dark [...]