In our last blog, we discussed the beginning of the cycle of decline for a narcissist. Today, we will continue down that path. As a reminder, our discussion started with healthy self-assurance and well-founded confidence that moves to overconfidence ...
In our discussions on leadership, it is impossible not to discuss narcissism and its effect on others. This week, we will discuss how a person enters the downward cycle away from constructive narcissism. How often do you see these patterns in your le ...
In our last post, we discussed the challenges working with leaders who are prickly, unapproachable and highly defensive, earning them the tile of a porcupine leader. The porcupine leader is rightly termed a fundamentalist. I am NOT using the term to ...
We have been talking about the “just right” leadership style of being in The Goldilocks Zone.When the inner core and outer ring are in the Goldilocks Zone, leaders are able to effectively express beliefs and core values, making them easy to follow. ...
It took only one generation for Adam and Eve’s emotional brokenness to infect the lives of their children. The story of their first son, Cain, and his younger brother Abel highlight the tragic consequences of the fall on the emotional life of humanit ...
In classical Greek literature,faith is akin to fidelity, which signifies an honored agreement or bond of trust.Fidelity is faithful and lasting devotion to one’s duties and obligations, sacred loyalty to one’s commitments. Faith is that which binds p ...
Resilience is derived from the Latin term resilire, meaning “to bounce or spring back.” A resilient material resumes its former shape after being pressed, bent or stretched out of shape, much like a bungee cord or rub ...
The pioneering research of Harvard sociologist Gordon Allport established a connection between our instinctive spiritual questing and the energy released through the Zeigarnik effect.Echoing Zeigarnik, Allport found that goals that are never quite fu ...
The inherent power of purpose to focus and energize us on any given day and over a lifetime is explained, at least in part (I don’t think we can fully explain it) by a phenomenon called the Zeigarnik Effect. The Zeigar ...
I love the scene from City Slickers where Curly Washburn, the rough and tumble cowboy, played by Jack Palance offers the Billy Crystal character, Mitch Robbins, some words of wisdom. Curly tells Mitch that, to figure out the meaning of life, all he h ...
