A leader’s primary superpower isn’t their ability to persuade or inspire or mobilize others. Mobilizing others is essential to leadership. Mobilizing others is co-creating space where other people can motivate themselves to take aligned, constructive action. Mobilizing others is secondary to a leader’s ability to transcend internal resistance, work around interior shadow, and recognize that most […]
Beautiful Things Take Time To Grow
If you’re ever near San Francisco, CA, take a trek north to Mill Valley. Spend a couple of hours walking around these thousand-year-old trees and see if you don’t leave the grounds with clearer lungs and a fresh perspective on time. I brought back a bag of sequoia seeds in a can when I visited […]
No Arc, No Guarantees. Work Anyway. (Coates)
I came across these paragraphs today, from one of the last columns The Atlantic‘s Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote on New Years Eve 2013. I don’t believe the arc of the universe bends towards justice. I don’t even believe in an arc. I believe in chaos. I believe powerful people who think they can make Utopia out of […]