This time each year is my “planning season.” It is a time where I review my focus and narrow my approach in making more real the institution of what I know: A friend once challenged me to “Build an organization that confirms and makes real what you know.” And for me, I have added, “and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Trust’
Freedom and Confidence – Planning
Posted in Confidence, Freedom and Confidence, tagged Authenticity, Brand, Flow, Focus, Love, Planning, Trust on December 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Freedom and Confidence – Trusting in the Flow
Posted in Confidence, Freedom and Confidence, tagged Authenticity, Flow, Purpose, Trust on November 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
There is freedom in trust. There is promise in the flow. In my book, Wading the Stream of Awareness, I illustrate flow as being present with life. Life is flowing, and it moves with or without our conscious presence. The promises made by the movement can only be caught by the conscious fisher. When trust [...]
Trust and Innovation (Innovative Trust)
Posted in Trust, tagged Collective, Commitment, Innovation, New Confidence, Trust on September 27, 2010 | 6 Comments »
There is innovation; and there is trust. There is the freshness of thought in true innovation. There is the confidence of fearless trust. What do we have when innovation and trust join? In this young 21st Century, we experience the impact of innovation vividly in our daily lives. Unfortunately for us, both individually and collectively, [...]
Trust and Commitment (Committed Trust)
Posted in Trust, tagged Commitment, Competence, Conscious, Experience, Impact, Trust, Values on September 20, 2010 | 7 Comments »
If our solution to our anxiety involves getting someone else to change, it is doomed to failure. -Jeffrey A. Miller in The Anxious Organization: Why Smart Companies do Dumb Things Since ancient times we have been admonished to be the change. There are those in our midst who clearly see any given problem and intelligently [...]
A Narrative Community
Posted in Trust, tagged Collective, Creativity, Innovation, Story, Trust on September 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Inside our stories, there is community. The marketplace is demanding that we burn the policy manuals and knock off the incessant memo writing; there’s just no time. It also demands we empower everyone to constantly take initiatives. It turns out stories are a – if not the – leadership answer to both issues. -Tom Peters, in [...]
A New Conversation
Posted in Trust, tagged Accountability, Desire, Evolution, Innovation, Trust, Understanding on August 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
When it comes to the moment of truth, both the organization and the individual are equally afraid of the creativity, the passion, and the courage that accompany those powers hidden within them and that are central to their vitality. This meeting place of creative anticipation and fearful arrival is the elemental core of a new [...]
Where Trust Begins
Posted in Trust, tagged Larger Story, New Confidence, Trust on August 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dan Pink, in his book Free Agent Nation, enlightened us about security and loyalty as we entered the 21st Century. Security and loyalty were, for a very long time, vertical; meaning that we gave our loyalty to the organization and the organization reciprocated with security. In preparation for the new millennium, security and loyalty shifted [...]
The Confidence of Trust
Posted in Confidence, Trust, tagged Authenticity, The Individual, Trust on August 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Speed happens when people at work truly trust each other. -Edward M. Marshall in Building Trust at the Speed of Change The workplace in the 21st Century is in transformation. The fear that many feel is due to a lack of understanding as to why the workplace is in upheaval. While there are many varying [...]
Skill 7 – Part B: Another’s Story
Posted in 7 Skills for 21st Century Leadership - Discussed, tagged Commitment, Experience, Impact, Larger Story, Love, New Confidence, Story, Storytelling, Trust, Voice on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The influence of understanding flows through one’s intent and purpose. Confident and empowered in our own voice, we create the space where individual stories recognize collective harmony through individual resonance. Before an individual story can flow toward the collective pool, the individual must find the foundational confidence to tell in the space that has been provided. [...]
