“While many of today’s leaders have lost their way due to moral and ethical missteps, just as many are facing a dead end due to their inability to see the big picture,” writes Peter Vajda. “These leaders are intelligent, but, unfortunately, not wise.”

“When relationships are replaced by electronic interactions, emotional connection—the human factor that creates true relationships—goes missing,” writes Peter Vajda. Are you short-changing others when it comes to relationships?

“There’s plenty of evidence impatience causes us to spend inordinate amounts of time and energy repairing, re-working and re-doing what we did when we were impatient,” Peter Vajda writes. “Sadly, we live in a culture of ‘hurry up’. We act as if delay spells d-e-a-t-h. Why not try the alternative?”

“One definition of character is who you are at 4:00 am in the dark when no one is watching,” writes Peter Vajda. “Once you start taking ethical short-cuts, even when no one is watching, you twist your character out of true.”

“Whenever we give in to anger, we misuse our ‘fire energy’ to ignite anger in place of courageous action,” writes Peter Vajda. “In place of strength and power, we are caught up in fear and bitterness. All that energy goes within, until we burn out.”

“Awareness,” write Peter Vajda, “is the ‘secret sauce’ of personal change. People who are unaware have no grasp of their internal map of reality. They live unconsciously, carrying the past, bad along with good, into the future.”

“The challenge for organizations today,” writes Peter Vajda, “is to carry out a redesign of their business models that sees it less as a mechanistic mix of processes, procedures and outcomes, and more like an ecosystem: part engineering, part quantum physics, part psychology, part biology, and part neuroscience.”

Why is being transparent so challenging to people? 
All conscious, healthy relationships thrive on the basis of trust, integrity and transparency. Transparency itself is about truth-telling. That means being open, honest and sincere in putting yourself ‘out there‘. In many ways, the essence of truth-telling is being comfortable in your own skin.
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For many today, writes Peter Vajda, the pressure is on. Dealing with it will most likely demand a significant course correction or so. How will you find what you need to do? Try listening to what’s inside you and fitting your future to your deepest needs.

“When was the last time you re-invented your career, your business or yourself?” asks Peter Vajda. It’s so easy to stay on the well-worn path of the ‘tried and true’, the familiar, the comfortable, the safe. Maybe that’s why our culture is rife with boredom. Without curiosity, neither we nor our organizations are likely to thrive (maybe not even survive) in the future.