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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

Expectations Kill Possibility: From Projection to Presence

In the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Sacred Ground,” Captain Kathryn Janeway—a trained scientist with a background in quantum cosmology and a former chief science officer—faces a crisis she cannot solve through conventional means.

When crewmember Kes is rendered unconscious by a planet’s mysterious energy field, Janeway petitions the planet’s monks to allow her to undertake a sacred ritual connected to the field.

The monks assign her a guide.

Before the ritual begins, Janeway encounters three elder monks who engage her in Zen-like Taoist wordplay. Their exchanges subtly expose something unsettling: Janeway is already preparing for the experience. She perceives it as a trial DOWNLOAD PDF

By |2026-06-03T14:31:07-04:00March 12th, 2026|Blog, Wisdom|0 Comments

Politics, Coaching, and the Practice of Democracy

Democracy is not an end state. It is not just a value or a process.
Democracy is a commitment to a way of being.

This commitment invites a more human view of politics — not as a struggle for control, but as the courageous work of shaping what’s possible together amid differences. Without the inner disciplines shared by coaching and human development, democracy can easily become reactive, transactional, or hollow.

Since November 2024, I’ve reflected more deeply on what it means to live within a pluralistic democracy — the most defining and fragile feature of the American experiment. To address this inquiry, I DOWNLOAD PDF

By |2026-06-03T14:31:40-04:00November 17th, 2025|Blog, Learning/Coaching, Practice|0 Comments
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