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If There is No Struggle There is No Progress
In the realm of mindful leadership I’m often emphasizing the need to stay open, relaxed, and curious as essential attitudes toward envisioning, collaboration and problem solving. Even though Connect To Your Pain, and Connect To The Pain Of Others are two of the Seven...
How Pain Can Provide a Path to Possibility and Purpose
In a recent post, I wrote about Winston Churchill’s three leadership (and life) lessons: Don’t sugar coat Apply cautious optimism Engage with purpose and meaning Those lessons are really sticking with me lately. I suspect it’s because Churchill’s lessons emerged at a...
Interview: Conscious Writing, Living and Leadership
Marc Lesser speaks with Julia McCutchen on Conscious Writing, Living and Leadership podcast about the essence of mindfulness and how it leads to developing awareness, effective listening, emotional intelligence, curiosity and compassion, not just for business success...
Interview: The Ontological Leader
Marc Lesser speaks with Maria Marc on The Ontological Leader podcast about how building character and way of being can lead to authenticity. You can listen to the conversation below.
Leading, Living, and Loving Between Worlds
Right now, it feels as though we are between worlds, and the need for compassion, and for wise leadership, has perhaps never been greater. This is almost always true, but the stakes and intensity appear particularly profound at this juncture. Major changes in world...
Mindful Leadership: Living In Two Worlds
A coaching client last week asked me to define “mindful leadership.” I’ve been studying and teaching (and aspiring to practice) mindful leadership for much of my life. Mindfulness is an enormous body of work and a practice worthy of a lifetime of study and practice,...