Want to join me in a calling? Let’s shatter an illusion together: the illusion that we need to be in hiding at work. I still do it. It feels scary to put that out there.

Originally posted on 2022-05-24 at 03:20 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6934704768112103424

7 years ago today, I arrived at the retrospective facilitators gathering at a small independent inn on the shores of Lake Tahoe. I did not know what a profound impact that gathering would have on my future.

 

 

Originally posted on 2022-05-10 at 19:10 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6929870360083390464

Let’s try this on for size. If our ability to navigate an environment is a bowl, then personal development might be about changing the bowl to be able to contain more.

Originally posted on 2022-05-04 at 14:02 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6927618573116862464

If “personal development” is prompted by changes in the environment we as individuals find ourselves in, and that we are ill equipped to handle, then maybe one function of “companies” is to “shield” people from those environments, a bit like parents provide shielding for children until they are considered (by convention/culture) “ready” to engage without shielding. What happens to companies when their “shielding capacity” erodes away as time and “evolutionary pressure” change their environment?

Originally posted on 2022-05-04 at 04:38 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6927476622132486144