Slow Leadership

The Pitfalls of Emotional Reasoning

Carmine Coyote — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:09:36 +0000

There are many joys in the journey through life, but plenty of pitfalls too. Sometimes the most difficult blockages to overcome are the ones inside your own head. The way you think, and what you tell yourself about events and people, can stop you cold on the journey towards happiness.

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Loving the job you’re in

John Fletcher — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:23:02 +0000

John Fletcher muses on the true value of a job, and why losing consciousness of yourself and of your ego in your single-minded application to the task in hand counts for more than you may imagine in making any job worthwhile.

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Some Important Lessons in Loyalty

Nina Simosko — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:53:50 +0000

Nina Simosko looks at loyalty and how leadership effectiveness either creates or destroys this fragile and essential part of corporate success. Inspiring loyalty isn’t difficult, she writes, though it does require awareness and commitment.

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Expansive (and Expensive) Egos

Carmine Coyote — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:22:50 +0000

Buddhists and Taoists have long claimed that a false belief in the ego is a principle cause of human suffering. Carmine Coyote traces the 'mysterious' sources of true leadership and exposes the perversions that egotism too often inflicts on us all. Let go of your ego. It’s a burden neither you nor those around you need.

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How Do You Define Success?

Peter Vajda — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:30:58 +0000

Do you consider yourself successful? Peter Vajda meditates on what it means to be a success and how different definitions of the word work in good times and bad. For him there’s success and there’s success: the one based on external factors and subject to constant insecurity; the other internal and far more resistant to bad times.

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A Simple Path to Success

Carmine Coyote — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:57:52 +0000

Carmine Coyote tells a story to prove that you don't need a life plan. You don't need motivation, self-confidence, peer support or even luck. All you need is the willingness to take the next most obvious step—then repeat the process again and again, regardless of how you feel.

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The Crucial Importance of Benign Neglect

Carmine Coyote — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:09:14 +0000

Carmine Coyote argues that one of the best ways to help people find success is to neglect them a little and let them get on their jobs without constantly micro-managing. If they’re busy, you don’t need to be. You could call this ‘benign neglect’.

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Do You Put Up With Living in More-or-Less Comfortable Misery?

Nina Simosko — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:08:49 +0000

Nina Simosko says no one should allow themselves to fall prey to comfortable misery. Not only does doing so make for many unhappy days in your own job and life, it serves no productive purpose for your company either. Change your thinking about what satisfies you. Don't settle for what is mediocre, however comfortable it seems to be.

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What Are My Options?

Carmine Coyote — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:41:50 +0000

If you want to transform your life, the first step is to re-establish conscious choice in place of all those automatic, habitual decisions. This will give you back your ability to find fresh options to replace worn out habits; permanently increase your opportunities to learn; and free you from repeating past mistakes.

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How To Gain Insight

Peter Vajda — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:46:59 +0000

Peter Vajda tells you how to ‘tune in’ to greater creativity and understanding and create the condition needed to gain the insights you may have been seeking.

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Choosing Integrity Over Manipulation

Carmine Coyote — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:52:29 +0000

Doing things from the wrong motives generally renders them useless. People judge motives as well as actions. If they suspect a hidden agenda, they’re immediately on their guard. You will not be trusted if people suspect your words or actions stem from the wish to pull the wool over their eyes. Integrity produces meaning we can believe in. Manipulation destroys it.

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Another Irrational Myth of Management?

John Fletcher — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:38:44 +0000

John Fletcher wonders why hierarchy is in such disfavor. For an idea that seems so natural, and has been independently discovered so often, it’s surprising how quickly it’s dismissed by management gurus. Is that another case of a fashionable management mythology that flies in the face of actual experience?

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Why You Need to Tell it Like it Is

Nina Simosko — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:14:47 +0000

When faced with a choice between saying something to make a person aware of a problem, or not saying anything and simply hoping for some change, Nina Simosko believes that there's no contest. Say what you need to say and say it as clearly as possible.

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Trust . . . and Why It Matters So Much

Carmine Coyote — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:19:28 +0000

Trust is the foundation for creating a civilized working environment. W. Edwards Deming, mostly remembered as the father of the Total Quality Movement, said that the primary duty of every leader is to remove fear from the workplace. Yet today fear seems more present, and more powerful, than ever. Where fear and mistrust rule, there can be no happiness, enjoyment, creativity, or sense of meaning in working life. Surely it’s time to wake up?

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Are you digging yourself into a hole?

Peter Vajda — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:50:52 +0000

Peter Vajda considers 'the hole'—that universal human sense of being lacking in some way. How far you will experience inner peace and happiness is a function of how you choose to fill your own hole. You can choose to reduce and then eliminate it, or dig a deeper one. It’s up to you.

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