75 responses. Some fascinating data. Raising some big questions. And so, coming up, a job I’m looking forward to… writing up my research from the Leadership and Love survey which has just closed. I’ll post about some of the findings here and, in the meantime,…
“….my adage is that the edgiest word to use at the moment isn’t “f**k”,”piss” or “shit”. It’s love. That’s what really makes people’s buttocks clench. It’s about being vulnerable, it’s counterintuitive, it ultimately makes you stronger. And that’s a very hard thing to grasp.” Not…
Sometimes I am not as nice as I could be or would like to be. Not as kind or compassionate or loving. And I find this hard to handle as these are values that are core to me. Increasingly, I try to put love at the centre…
There’s nothing quite like feeling ‘got’. Friday night last week. And not a normal start to a weekend. At a weekend workshop, I was in a closed eye visualisation exploring how I experience the world through the four Jungian archetypes of Magician, Lover, Warrior and Sovereign. The…
I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership culture recently. And you know that I’m interested in the idea of how leadership practices can be more loving. Well, I read How to Love by Thich Naht Hanh, a book ostensibly about our close relationships but one…
In leadership development, I often work with binaries, with different ends of a spectrum in order to explore something, maybe creating a false polarity to make a point. Are you a strategic or an operational leader? Is your style one of advocacy, or inquiry? And…
One of things I noticed when I first starting talking about ‘work as love in action’ is how many people didn’t like using the word love. It felt as though they wanted to steer me onto safe ground when I talked about my new blog….
Working in leadership development and helping people change and grow, despite having a practical focus, I have become increasingly interested in the notion of love. And I’m curious – as we go about the business of creating and encouraging change, what might happen if we put…
