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Fast decisions in slow companies: ethics, (a bit of) humor and the 2Cs for Corporate Contradiction
This essay is a deeper dive into the real-world challenges behind the hopeful ideas I shared in my shorter LinkedIn post “ When work...
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Aug 113 min read
At the Edge of VoiceWhat Elsa, Lohengrin, and a Coaching Room Share About Truth and Risk
A reflection drawn from Wagner’s Lohengrin and the character of Elsa on silence, truth, and what it means to ask the question we’re not...
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Aug 84 min read
The Enine Syndrome – A Moral Failure in the Care of the Vulnerable
There is a particular kind of behavior that seems harmless on the surface, even kind, even generous, but upon closer inspection reveals a...
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Jul 273 min read
KB-Room 355, on Voice, Power, and the Quiet Work of Courage (sequel)
A few days after I left the hospital, after sending an email summarizing what former doctors had diagnosed and explaining, in concrete...
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Jul 205 min read
What would it mean to lead with the Principle of Charity in today’s world?
This again began as a philosophical exercise on reasoning, not a political post. But as I reflected more, I saw how deeply it connects to...
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Jul 63 min read
KB-Room 355, a Voice, a Question: On Bias and Knowing
I just spent several days in a hospital’s research unit. My roommate was a caucasian woman admitted for suspected fibromyalgia. Her...
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Jul 43 min read
Truth, Belief, and the Fragility of Knowing – Part 2
As a leadership coach, I see (and saw it when I was still working in the private sector) this uncertainty showing up in real decisions,...
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Jun 151 min read
Truth, Belief, and the Fragility of Knowing – Part 1
I recently reflected on this question in a forum on critical reasoning, and it stayed with me: Is it a necessary condition of knowing...
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Jun 122 min read
"Beyond Likeability: The Courage to Lead Amidst Unspoken Trips to Abilene"
I have often seen a hidden struggle in leadership: the pull between taking care of others and the fundamental need to care for yourself....
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Jun 112 min read
“Instinctively”: When Leadership Refuses to Think"
Recently, I heard the word “instinctively” used to justify a serious decision. The word caught my attention, not because it was new, but...
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Jun 112 min read
“Accountability”: When Everyone Looks Away
Within one week, I heard three statements that stayed with me: At an elite European business school: “We’re accountable for our students’...
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Jun 111 min read
“The Highest Ethical Standards”: What Does That Really Mean?
“He acts according to the highest ethical standards.” I heard this in a TV interview, said easily, confidently, without pause. But...
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Jun 111 min read
“The Question We Do Not Know to Ask…”
What if we don’t have the answers because we never learned to ask the right questions? Or maybe it is not even about learning. Maybe we...
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Jun 112 min read
“Thoughts, Language, and the Space In Between”
I recently wrote this in a forum on critical reasoning. As I reread it, I realized how deeply it speaks to the work I do as a leadership...
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Jun 112 min read
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