Communication

The One Capacity You’ve Ignored Far Too Long—Part 1

If you had to identify one human capacity that makes each of the following possible, what would it be?

  • Engineering a city
  • Executing a business strategy
  • Producing offspring
  • Running a marathon
  • Playing in a jazz quartet

The answer may not be obvious. These activities seem to have little in common.

Before revealing what connects them, consider a second list. What might underlie these familiar organizational problems?

  • Lack of trust
  • Miscommunication
  • Lack of clarity
  • Lack of accountability

At first glance, the two lists appear to ask DOWNLOAD PDF

By |2026-08-31T19:18:06-04:00August 31st, 2026|Blog, Communication, Leadership|0 Comments

Why “Good Faith” Matters Now More Than Ever

In a previous essay on coaching, politics, and democracy, I explored what it means to treat democracy as a living conversation—and offered practices to sustain it. The foundational practice included a simple, but essential commitment: good faith.

Since then, sociopolitical tensions—both globally and at home—have only intensified. What once felt foundational now feels indispensable. In every effort, conversation, and even disagreement, good faith establishes the conditions under which we remain whole and understanding remains possible—even in the presence of opposition.

Ezra Klein captures this principle in a recent New York Times column:

Conversation is not a reward DOWNLOAD PDF

By |2026-06-03T14:31:00-04:00April 20th, 2026|Blog, Communication, Leadership, Practice|0 Comments

The Art of Conversation: From Debate to Dialogue

What if our interactions, experiences, and situations in life are all a conversation? Consider leadership, identity, love, trust, science, learning, and suffering as a conversation.

What if we view life as a network of conversations?

Everything says something. Our very existence evokes conversation. We derive meaning from our engagement with the world. Each interaction reveals significance, backgrounds, histories, and discourses, forming our relationship with reality.

The significance of our life lies not in the rock we stumble over but in how we make sense of that experience and how it shapes our view of reality. We are incessantly in conversations with DOWNLOAD PDF

By |2024-08-14T15:09:00-04:00December 11th, 2023|Blog, Communication|0 Comments
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