Michael Schreiber
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Michael Schreiber
Callard defines aspiration as the slow process of “trying on the values that we hope one day to possess.”7 This is in contrast to an ambitious journey where we already know what we value.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
Seth Godin • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Too many people think freedom is the ability to do anything you want, instead of the discipline to not be a slave to your compulsions.
Ayishat Akanbix.comI 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
I realized that providing expertise is antithetical to cultivating agency, and I began seeking new ways to engage my client organizations. For example, I stopped offering organizational models and started emphasizing the use of living systems frameworks, which provide the structure for thinking but require participants to supply the content and do
... See moreCarol Sanford • No More Gold Stars: Regenerating Capacity to Think for Ourselves
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life... See more
Maria Popova • How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity
When there’s no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon’s only tool.