Inside the Black Box
moments from the experiment
Inside the Black Box
Experts and specialists are important contributors to most sustainability projects, but we also need integrators and generalists who can help to put the contribution of each discipline into systemic relationships and help to contextualize the contributions made by the specialists.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts
I always start by helping my clients articulate their Quest(ion). What is it that’s missing? What are they longing for? What is the life that is trying to be lived through them? What are their tropisms? (Tropisms are what we naturally turn toward, the way plants naturally turn toward the light.)
Coaching From Essence: Create a Thriving Practice Doing Powerful Work With Clients You Love
Agency is the capacity to act. Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something different from the rigid path of events that simply happen to you. Remarkable people typically go off-script early, usually in more than one way. Carnegie becoming a telegraph message boy is one opportunity; asking how to operate the telegraph is another. He was
... See moreSimon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.... See more
A quote from Walden
In regenerative systems, relationships are the system. And your ability to tend to them — with honesty, skill, and care — is what allows real change to take root.
Joel Carboni • Becoming Regenerative: A Leadership Journey for Those Who Refuse to Burn Out
History’s heroes know something the rest of us don’t: fear isn’t the enemy; inaction is. What we have to learn to do is lean into the things that hold us back, to move through the pain and push forward.
Jeff Goins • Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into Your Comfortable Life
Our role as coaches is to help our clients create B-prime—something that is better than they could imagine for themselves when they began to work with us.
Coaching From Essence: Create a Thriving Practice Doing Powerful Work With Clients You Love
We need to recognize that idleness, not work, is the true curse, and that good work affords us one of our best opportunities to become better versions of ourselves and make meaningful contributions to the lives of others.