Leadership — standing for possibilities bigger than ourselves
Leadership is not something that's gained because of birth or tenure.
Short pieces on the distinctions that change how a thing is seen — written by the people doing the work.
Leadership is not something that's gained because of birth or tenure.
Creating a future exists in language—it starts with articulating a vision, and comes to life in conversation.
The degree to which who we are today is filtered by our early decisions often goes unrecognized.
It's what gives life to our deepest aspirations and our wildest dreams. It has the power to create and alter the very nature of what is possible.
When we compromise, even in the tiniest of matters, it's easier for those compromises to become more and more commonplace.
Greatness and genius can easily become labels reserved for exceptional people or rare moments.
Hundreds of flavors of ice cream, countless selections of movie channels, an infinite choice of mates, our daily round of work and play, our incessant.
What marks a visionary is dedication to a possibility, a dedication that rejects outright the complacency of those who prefer the status quo and insists.
If in the making of a computer chip or a bicycle wheel some small part were left out, neither would be able to function as intended.
Every day we are presented with opportunities to live as if it's business as usual or to create something beyond who we've been, beyond what we know.
We are essentially in conversations with ourselves most of the time—how we listen is determined by our concerns (being successful, being liked, wanting.
In taking on big commitments, games worth playing, there will always be failures.
It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix.
At what point are things the way they are…and at what point a possibility beyond that?
Our identity, who we consider ourselves to be, is essentially arrived at by default, assembled to adapt to something we saw as wrong or some seeming.
In being nobody but ourselves, our values are always at play. Values are ongoing, they're never completed.
Communication, conversation, language are predominately thought of, anchored in our minds, as an expressing, a speaking, a vocalizing.
(Oh, those silly humans! So desperate for their absolutes!) Sometimes it seems like the only job of the world is to gently (or not so gently) separate us.
A paradigm is a two-edged sword. When we swing it one way, it cuts the information that agrees with it into very fine, precise detail.
Deep surprise is a way we signal ourselves that a thing perceived or thought may be consequential, that a discovery or insight may be of genuine use.
Something happens. Immediately, we assign meaning, categorize importance, draw conclusions, identify action to be taken, form opinions that linger.
Living from an invented context has just as much impact and command value as living from a default context—the difference, however, is the difference.
We commonly think of freedom as freedom from, freedom of, or freedom to do or be something, or as the ability to define alternatives and select among them.
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