“Solitude and Leadership”

Jesus modeled solitude as an integral strategic component of His leadership. Consider the following: • When preparing for the tests of leadership and public ministry, Jesus spent forty days alone in the desert (Matthew 4:1–11). • Before Jesus chose His twelve apostles from among His followers, He spent the entire night alone in the desert hills (Lu

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The Leadership Skill You Can't Delegate

What?

Listening doesn't scale. That's why it matters.

So What?

The leadership paradox is that it's judged at scale, but earned in moments.

Most of the systems we build are designed to scale. But listening doesn't. And that's what makes it rare.

Real listening requires your full attention, in real time, with no s... See more

seminal book, Solitude: A Return to the Self. As Storr noted, by the 1980s, psychoanalysis had become obsessed with the importance of intimate personal relationships, identifying them as the most important source of human happiness. But Storr’s study of history didn’t seem to support this hypothesis. He opens his 1988 book with the following quote

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