Deflategate: The Need for Certainty and Trust in Delegation
Certainty is comforting. It feels good to know what is right and what is wrong. Certainty builds confidence because with it, consequences are predictable, expectations and boundaries are clear, and certainty brings peace of mind by providing order to our experience of the world. Certainty can also be overused and morph into inflexibility and an […]
Resistance: “To be, or not to be…” | To do, or not to do…
Wrestling with inner conflict about whether to do something now, or later, or never, is a battle so fundamental to being human that Prince Hamlet’s famous lament “To be, or not to be…”[1] is among the most memorable questions of all time. Hamlet struggles to decide between enduring another day of life, with all its […]
Inauthentically Authentic
Is Authenticity going the way of Privacy? Are both vestiges of our pre-digital and pre-Internet past? There was a time when we would carefully invite others into our personal lives and make a special effort to share interests, photographs, and secrets. But that norm has been turned on its head. To be interpersonally engaged today […]
A Small and Regrettable Patriotic Act
Sony hack and a missed leadership moment
The Pursuit of a Happy New Year
January 3, 2015 Thomas Jefferson, through The United States Declaration of Independence, reminded us that one of our “unalienable rights” is the pursuit of Happiness. With all the heartfelt wishes for a ‘Happy’ New Year going around, it got me thinking: What is Happiness and how do you know whether your pursuit will get you […]