Natalie Audelo

We’ve reached what Tocqueville described: downright egotism. It’s the ideological wall I find impossible to scale: I don’t know how to make you care about other people.

The individual’s ability to cope with uncertainty

Organizations are created, powered, and led by people. To lead organizations well, we train people in disciplines such as marketing, finance, and leadership. But uncertainty presents a special challenge since few of us have received training in how to deal with it. As a result, although we may call... See more

My sense is that what’s at stake here is really rethinking the human as a site of interdependency. And I think, you know, when you walk into the coffee shop ... and you ask for the coffee, or you, indeed, even ask for assistance with the coffee, you’re basically posing the question, do we or do we not live in a world in which we assist each other?... See more

It means even more now, as we have lived enough to have accumulated some regrets, abandoned dreams, things we ruminate on late at night. We know the edges to our abilities, the ways we have fallen short of our own expectations. We are learning something new: loving people, flawed and limited as they are, instead of expecting perfection.