What do you say when you feel your life is taken right from your chest, even though I miraculously find myself still breathing?
As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.
As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.
Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error.
At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.
Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.
All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.
Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.