I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.
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.
As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.
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.
True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.