For those of you who think of Steve Jobs as a boy wonder who had a life filled with success and creativity – someone to emulate, you need to read Brent Schlender’s article in Fast Company about his hundreds of interviews with Jobs over 25 years. The article is about Job’s 11 wilderness years after he was fired from Apple. Those years he spent getting to know himself, starting a family, working from home, learning
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Just reading a Fast Company article on Mark Zuckerberg! He not only founded Facebook but he consciously developed himself over a period of a few years to be the CEO of a multibillion dollar company. He began the transformation at age 20 and will be 28 in May of this year. No small feat! Amazing in fact! How did he do it? He opened himself to learning then he interviewed successful and admired CEO’s. He
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I was watching a TED video of Elizabeth Lesser, the founder of the Omega Institute. The presentation was about overcoming the divisiveness that permeates our politics today. In the beginning of the talk she said something about leadership that struck me profoundly. In talking about Nelson Mandela and other well-known leaders she said they had both “the grit of the warrior and the grace of the mystic”. Both the image of that and the sense
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Just finished watching Bill Gates on American Perspective (C-Span) in a far reaching interview before an audience in Washington DC. He covered everything from his children and family, business, his personal decisions, to what is possible with philanthropy. Near the very end he was talking about education and specifically what goals his foundation could meet. Goals such as having a model of a good teacher or which technology helps best in the classroom! He also listed
Full Story →Much has been said over the last 20 years about women’s leadership and how it differs from men’s. And not only how it differs from men’s but that the way women lead is necessary for the future – to get away from the idea of wars and territory and more into relationships with each other and the planet we need to sustain. I don’t disagree but it seems that the women in many leadership positions
Full Story →Just got back from Bob Kegan’s and Lisa Lahey’s Immunity to Change workshop! It was a great experience and very powerful work. They make it seems so easy but I have to remember that Bob Kegan has been doing the research on adult development for 30 years. In any case, the process of uncovering the big assumptions that keep us stuck with one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake is simple
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