Sublime

Embody REAL leader behaviors to get you back on track, especially when you are having trouble building relationships with people who are different from you. •Acknowledge that we will always be up against a surface world. •Accept empathy and psychological safety as the engines of below the surface cultures. •Recognize that you have to get below the

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IT’S THE PEOPLE People are the foundation of any company’s success. The primary job of each manager is to help people be more effective in their job and to grow and develop. We have great people who want to do well, are capable of doing great things, and come to work fired up to do them. Great people flourish in an environment that liberates and am

But the constant in the midst of the change, and the reason why the course is important, is that people come here to make a difference out there. People bring passions and purposes. We help them be more effective. We help them develop discipline, analytic awareness, and strategic action.

TAKING STOCK Follow your bliss. If it brings you joy, do more of it. What brings you joy, brings you alive? How could you do more of it? (Campbell, 1949) What is your vision of the compelling future that serves generations to come? What if you started your next important meeting with the question, “What are we not going to tell the truth about toda

Our culture tells us we are autonomous. Actually, we are each an integral part of multiple systems. The challenge is to reflect critically on our reality, learn to see the patterns, and recognize how context driven people are, that is, how much people are shaped by the expectations of their social milieu.

First and foremost, founders and CEOs of Teal Organizations must accept that their power is severely limited by the advice process. It doesn’t matter how strongly they are convinced about their point of view; they cannot make a decision without consulting people affected by the matter and people with relevant expertise.

7. Institute peer leadership consulting. Individual and collective commitments to go forward will be hard to make because they require decisions about who will take what losses,

Steiner’s foundational book, The Philosophy of Freedom,