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Can you lead with mindfulness?

Mindfulness is the practice of placing your attention where you’d like it to go and cultivating the ability to hold it there. This placement of attention is quite a skill because in today’s world anything can take your attention. It’s constantly scanning for new stimuli and creates a jumpy habit. It makes you busy but it doesn’t necessarily mean you are productive. This jumpy habit also promotes fear and doubt – says Susan Piver. How can leaders become better by practicing mindfulness? Un-splitting mind and body Susan Piver is a mindfulness expert and long-time meditation teacher. She authored “How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life” and edited “Quiet Mind-A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation.” Fear and doubt prevent us from giving our full heart to what we’re doing and […]

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Dare you time-space-matter?

As the year is drawing to a close and we’re looking forward to a winter or summer break (depending on your part of the world) – it’s time to reflect on our experiences so far and explore our intentions for next year. I’m not talking about New Year’s resolutions. I’m talking intentions. What are you intending to create, or let happen, next year? Intentions set the direction of your attention and your actions – and their energy. Dare you time-space-matter? Intentions matter For instance: the intention to double my income sets the space for another energy than the intention to serve my purpose of spreading positive leadership, culture and change. Both intentions may include Leadership & Change Magazine – but my actions, decisions, feelings, thinking and “coincidental” events and encounters […]

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Are you working with idiots?

by Margo Boster I recently presented a workshop to a group of fellow coaches at an International Coaching Federation meeting. I realized that my style, my approach and my very message were not consistent with what most people did. Afterwards, I had a moment of questioning myself: “Should I have been more of what they were expecting?” Are you good enough? Compared to whom? Or are you the one who’s working with idiots? How do you value yourself in the workplace? Silently, I laughed to myself as I realized that after all this time, there was still a bit of me that questioned if I was doing what they wanted – did I live up (or down) to their standards? And I quickly remembered: “Their standards” – who are They? […]

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Reinventing Organizations: a case study

There’s a new way of organizing and collaborating emerging around the globe – as Frederic Laloux shows in his book Reinventing Organizations. Let’s take a closer look at “new organizations” with a case study – and examine the three key things that they do differently: self-management, wholeness and purpose. As I discussed in last week’s blog, organizational evolution matches the stages of human development. In short: Collaboration in the magic-tribal red phase looked like one tribe with a chief. They hunt-gather and fight the other tribes – trying to dominate. The metaphor: wolf packs. Then we created the agrarian revolution, 5000 years ago, and evolved toward amber organizations. They are structured with one boss, one god and laws. They are hierarchical and stable. The metaphor: armies. The scientific revolution led […]

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