Writing

Leadership is not necessarily about setting a vision or making decision for others. Perhaps the highest form of leadership is simply about creating a vision for yourself and boldly sharing it with the world.

Our worlds are now impossibly vast and complex. Now more than ever, we must find a way to untangle the knot of chaos and complexity all around us into something comprehensible and manageable.

Profound social transformation typically takes place over generations. Self-transformation happens over years if not decades. But growth toward those ends can happen today, perhaps even in a single moment.

Growth is developing and harnessing new aspects of ourselves and our genius. In contrast, healing is retrieving and re-integrating old aspects of ourselves that have been left behind or experiences that we never fully processed.

Systems thinking is a new paradigm of analysis that encourages and enables us to understand complex and often hidden dynamics throughout our world.

Teal organizations are an emerging model based on living systems and aimed at garnering higher member well-being, improved resilience, and greater contributions to the common good.

Essentialism is a daily discipline that not only helps us lead healthier, more sustainable lives, but allows us to focus more of our time and energy to the things that truly matter.

Can we transcend irony and cynicism and step into genuine, vulnerable sincerity?