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Privilege, Power and the Pull of Powerlessness
In an ABC news interview on June 9th, Hilary Clinton said her family left the White House in 2001 “dead broke.” With that comment, she set off a firestorm of criticism and national dialogue on...
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Leading Out Loud
Find out who you are and do it on purpose As I turned on the radio, on my way home from the airport yesterday, having just arrived back from Toronto, I was delighted to catch the last 5 minutes of...
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Do leaders get to be learners?
I was talking my client, Larry, the other day, who was struggling with how to communicate with his manager. No matter how hard he tried, he always felt that he and his boss were out of step. And...
View ArticleThe Other Side of the Generation Gap
I was in Toronto last week. There, among several other engagements, I had the pleasure to work with a group of engineering students who are part of the Institute for Leadership Education at the...
View ArticleWeakness or Wickedness?
“It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.” So wrote John Adams over two centuries ago. It’s controversial, but rings true in my work with...
View ArticleWhat Box Did You Crawl Out Of?
One day, early in my career as a therapist, I complained to my colleague about my struggle being effective with certain kinds of issues. In particular, I easily felt defeated by chronic issues. Each...
View ArticleWhen the “Open Door” Isn’t
Several years ago I coached a leader and her team. They had hired two new team members and thought everything was going well. The new hires had great skills and good attitudes; they were easy to get...
View ArticleBeyond Ethics: Power in the helping professions
When I was working as a therapist, I often asked myself about the future of psychotherapy. I even wrote an article about it in 2000, called Five Predictions on the Future of Psychotherapy. In it, I...
View ArticleThe Fear Factor
This post is the story I told at this month’s Free Speech event at Wildfang. When Emma McIlroy, Wildfang CEO, asked me to be a part of this event, she said this first Free Speech event was on the...
View ArticleLeadership Through The Lens of Power
“How many world leaders do you think are just completely out of their mind?” So asked Jerry Seinfeld, the famed stand-up comic, to Barack Obama in a 2015 episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting...
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