Poetry is lifting the heavy rocks.
The rocks in the boundary between the sensed world that we agree upon,
And that ineffable world at the edges of our own consciousness. Continue reading Doing Poetry: A Poem
Doing Poetry: A Poem
Tag: Humanities
Stephen Interviewed by Heidi Gehman
HLI Int18.003b
Heidi Gehman had some questions for Stephen about HLI. Heidi is a higher education administrator and former colleague of Stephen’s at Oregon Extension. This is part of Stephen’s conversation with Heidi about her work here.
Topics discussed in this interview
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- Integrated, whole self leadership
- Self leadership
- Fear-based vs. hope-based motivation
- Impeccability
- Wisdom jigs
Interview with Heidi Gehman
HLI Int18.003
Stephen had the pleasure of talking about self leadership with Heidi Gehman, a higher education administrator and former colleague of Stephen’s at Oregon Extension, where she was teaching college courses in the Humanities. Stephen talks to Heidi about more humane leadership here.
Topics discussed in this interview
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- Hope
- Impeccability
- The moral life
- Iris Murdoch’s concept of “intentional attention”
- How to get the ego out of the way of truth
Creative Self Emergence and Rilke’s Poetry
If we are lucky enough to move beyond our basic needs for safety and belonging, we can begin the process of earning the esteem of ourselves and others. A few lucky souls even get to move toward self actualization in Maslow’s model.
But, for many, leadership opportunities look like nurturing their own and other’s creative self emergence. Continue reading Creative Self Emergence and Rilke’s Poetry
Leading With Operating Metaphors
I was scared and the team was concerned. I stood in front of fifty expectant and dubious faces–the newly combined sales and order processing team. Within a few months, we had to:
- Eliminate a nasty conflict that divided the team
- Move half the team to a combined space
- Remove two order processing and tracking systems
- Re-engineer the entire sales and order process
- Double the size of the team
I knew the physics of change: to every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The more we tried to do the greater the resistance from the team and the organization would be. I started up my PowerPoint and hoped my unorthodox approach worked. Continue reading Leading With Operating Metaphors