Sublime

people don’t perceive themselves as entirely distinct from others or from the environment (which causes some to romanticize about this period, seeing it as pre-dualism bliss, ignoring the extremely high rate of violence and murder at this stage).

“If an individual has ego needs that are too high,” notes Peter Friedes, Hewitt’s managing partner, “they can be a very disruptive influence.

When we look through this filter not only at compensation, but at all the structure, practices, and culture of an organization, we find that they are not scattered randomly among the stages and colors, but cluster around a center of gravity, a stage that defines most practices of the organization. It is this center of gravity that I refer to when I

In intimate relationships, it’s never a matter of two people landing on the one true reality, but rather of negotiating differing subjective realities.

the people adopted just enough of the majority stance to be seen as acceptable members of the town.

Marriage is not between ethereal souls or disembodied spirits but between real, flesh-and-blood human beings.

In each instance, what we are asked for is a combination—or more accurately, an integration—of emotion and action.

A Few Million Years in a Few Pages In a nutshell, here’s the story we tell in the following pages: A few million years ago, our ancient ancestors (Homo erectus) shifted from a gorilla-like mating system where an alpha male fought to win and maintain a harem of females to one in which most males had sexual access to females. Few, if any experts