We tend to think of leaders as people at the top. Leaders are at the top of their game, at the top of the organization chart. People who want to be leaders fight their way to the top. Some people even climb to the top of the leadership mountain. We believe that leadership flows from […]
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For a long time, years and years, I was asleep to myself. I did what people expected me to do, told me to do. I thought spiritual life was about finding the right answers, and that I had found them. I was sleeping. The life I thought I had was a dream. While our dreams
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What are your hours? I can remember when businesses were open at certain times and closed at others. We needed to go to a bank while it was open to deposit and withdraw money. If we needed to look something up at night, we waited until the next morning. Many people worked from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with
We think of leaders as people up in front, attracting our attention. We see leaders having plans, motivating people to put those plans into action. We hear leaders talk, directing and influencing other people to do things. We believe leaders are in the spotlight, in the front of the room. People who want to be recognized as
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There are people who believe that spiritual life is about having good intentions. I know other people who understand spiritual life as focused on what they know. Others feel that spiritual life is in their hearts. For some, spiritual life is essentially letting go of everything else. Some people believe spiritual life happens in special places
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Do you become a different person when you go to work? Do you know the person other people meet when they work with you? I know plenty of people who are transformed when they go to work. It is as if they have secret work identities. Some warm, caring people become ruthless competitors when they go to work. Some people who are quiet around their families
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We think we have a handle on leadership. We read books about leadership. We study it in school. We attend leadership conferences, even hold positions of leadership. People have appreciated our leadership potential for as long as we can remember. We may have challenges in other areas of what we do; we understand leadership. We recognize the
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Margaret Feinberg is a strong woman, a fighter. I first met Margaret a few years ago when I read one of her books, Scouting the Divine. She wrote about finding deep, sacred truth in everyday experience. She had read scripture texts about herding sheep, the sweetness of honey, new wine. She went looking for spiritual life
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It feels like we are always running out of time. The present rushes into the past, pushing us into the future. We struggle to keep up with the current of time, but are constantly carried along to the next thing. We feel that if we pause to reflect, or to breathe, we will fall behind and miss
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We often hear that good working relationships are important. They can help us work more efficiently and effectively; they can make work more enjoyable. That is great in the abstract; it is difficult to be opposed to good working relationships. What about the nuts and bolts of working relationships? Working relationships are a combination of the
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