Author name: Peter Schulte

The only thing that has ever really worked is simply being with the unpleasant emotion, to allow it, to console it, to not try to fix it at all.

What “guilty” pleasure might you more fully allow yourself to just have fun with?

We face many urgent problems that deserve our urgent attention. Of course. But a lack of beauty is not one of them.

What can you take a holiday from this August?

There seem to always be deeper, more expansive aspects of ourselves to uncover and operate from. There is always another horizon to explore.

We do not choose what we dream. At best, we can choose which of our many dreams we pursue.

At its core, leadership is really about leading yourself to the fullest expression of your unique gifts and perspectives, regardless of your title and authority.

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.

Through their work, change agents contend and demonstrate that time is not a flat circle. Rather, it is an upward spiral, ever reaching new heights and yet ever looping back on itself again and again.