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Bringing my reflections on Parker Palmer's five 'shadow-casting monsters' from his book Let Your Life Speak, I want to bring our attention to the fourth and fifth of that list today. Shadow-Casting Monsters #4: 4. "Fear, especially our fear of the natural chaos of life" (89). Don't we fear the chaos of things? Having participated in …
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Continuing my reflections on Parker Palmer's five 'shadow-casting monsters' in the life of a leader from his book Let Your Life Speak, I turn now to numbers three, which is: "'Functional atheism', the belief that the ultimate responsibility for everything rests with us" (88). Here's a bit more from Palmer on this one: This is the unconscious, …
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Awhile back, I read through Parker Palmer's brief book Let Your Life Speak. This is an outstanding book on life and leadership. Palmer has worked quite a bit with educators and as an advocate for peace in our world today. He comes from a Quaker background. To set the tone of what he is trying …
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In my previous posts on Gary L. McIntosh and Samuel D. Rima's Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership, I summarized their key assumptions in the book, the definition of the dark side, how the dark side develops, and five dark-side issues leaders often encounter. In this final post on the book, I turn to the third, …
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Continuing with my exploration of Gary L. McIntosh and Samuel D. Rima's Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership, in the second part of the book the authors give attention to what they call "five dark-side issues experienced most often by leaders" (16). They group those dark-side issues into individual chapters that describe in greater detail what each …
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Matthew Erickson 