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Here are a few words from Parker Palmer on wrong approaches to thinking about our vocation: Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves - and acknowledge and …
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Over the next five days, I am simply going to share some words that have impacted me deeply from Parker J. Palmer's outstanding book, Let Your Life Speak. If you have not read this book yet and have questions about your identity, vocation, and living well, please take the time to read it. Here are …
Because some folks have continued to ask about this, here is a summary post through which you can access all of my notes from the Leadership Summit 2009. Bill Hybels, "Leading in a New Reality" Round Table with Carly Fiorina, Henry Cloud, David Ireland and Patrick Lencioni, "Hiring, Firing, and Board Meltdowns" David Gergen, "Eyewitness …
[I wrote these words last February on a day away in solitude for prayer and study.] I sit in this small prayer house in the winter cold. Because the main house at this retreat center is vacant for the week, I was offered the chance to stay in the main house for the day. As …
Tyler Cowen of the Marginal Revolution blog brought to my attention: The email edition of the British Psychological Society's Research Digest has reached the milestone of its 150th issue....To mark the occasion, the Digest editor has invited some of the world's leading psychologists to look inwards and share, in 150 words, one nagging thing they …
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