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How do Heart-Centered Leaders Go Through the Fire?
Let’s nail down one thing: going through the fire has nothing to do with firefighting. Although your skills as a firefighter would certainly grow, too. Trust me! So, what is ‘fire’ then? Week by week, day by day we are confronted with situations that shake our solid...
When leaders feel safe, everyone feels safe.
What is the essence of Heart-Centered Leadership? Let's start by nailing this down: a heart-centered leader is kind and compassionate, however, she or he is not the best grandma of all, walking around the office with a huge plate of freshly baked cakes every day....
4-step guide to hold your team together amidst chaos – Legend of the skilled cook, a lawnmower and the two managerial superpowers – 3/4
In the first two parts of the article, I was talking about the unnecessary struggles we might experience as we are facing sudden changes or when we feel lost. Mostly it is our own stories, that we tell ourselves that make the situations even harder. I described in the...
4-step guide to hold your team together amidst chaos – Legend of the skilled cook, a lawnmower and the two managerial superpowers – 2/4
In the first part of the article, I used a Taoist parable to describe the mastery of effortless actions. I also explained the reason, why we are chasing ourselves more often into unnecessary internal struggles. The good news is that if we can find a way to ground...
4-step guide to hold your team together amidst chaos – Legend of the skilled cook, a lawnmower and the two managerial superpowers – 1/4
According to a Taoist legend, during the reign of Wenhui, there lived at court a cook who was good at cutting beef and had a wonderful knife. Every movement she made, the touch of her hand, the tilt of her shoulders and the stamp of her foot all corresponded to...
Get back in your own shoes first!
Put yourself in his/her shoes” is often really good advice, because when we are in conflict with someone we are unable to empathize with them. And we would reach a consensus sooner if we could see behind the anger, fear or hurt, the person who may be struggling with similar emotions to our own, but who is unable to express himself.
Our ability to adapt to a profoundly sick society is not a sign of mental health
The above title is a quote from Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Indian philosopher who travelled the world for over sixty years giving lectures whose main message was that only a complete transformation of individual hearts can bring peace to societies. He stressed that he...