Life & Leadership · Cultural Awareness · Healthy Transitions
How we deal with regret will affect how much we can grow, develop and push forward. As we looked at last time, regret can eat us alive or be food for thought and growth going forward… In this post we look at how to make sure it’s the latter.
It wouldn’t surprise anyone who has experienced the gnawing, consuming discomfort of remorse to discover that the word originally comes from the Medieval Latin ‘remorsum’ meaning literally “to bite back, bite again.”
So how can we deal well with our life and leadership regrets without them eating us alive?
In the first part we looked at how crustaceans leave one shell when they outgrow it. They break out of their old, tightly restrictive shell to grow a new one. It’s a natural reality but also an apt metaphor for … Continued
Change. It sometimes comes like a blessed relief, a liberation, a much needed shift. At other times it makes us want to crawl under a rock and hide in the dark. Most times, it’s a curiously perplexing mixture of the two: we feel exposed and we feel released. So how is it that change has power to bring both spacious freedom yet also intense vulnerability? Turns out, Mother Nature has some wisdom on this…
Our cultural perspective affects how we learn and imagine, and hence how we understand and communicate events with others. Here’s a simple story that reveals hidden cultural assumptions.
What capabilities mark out those growing in cultural awareness? How can we build these characteristics in ourselves, our teams and our organisations? Cultural awareness might be something that you grew up with or were born into. Perhaps your parents’ decisions, … Continued
When Ottoman Sultans attended ritual prayer at an Imperial Mosque, they performed their namaz (prayers) from a raised, gilded loge, an ornately screened religious equivalent of a theatrical Royal Box. These loges (Hünkar mahfili) led back into a secret first … Continued
My visit to Standen House was the result of happy chance and coincidence. Flying in to Gatwick, I had researched places of interest en route to the south coast and on a whim we decided to swing past and take … Continued
When I was studying literature at university we came across the mythological story of Tantalus. It’s a pretty horrific tale containing many twists and turns (he steals the secrets of the gods and boils his own son for starters…). But … Continued
A month or two ago I found myself, completely unexpectedly, crying in public. It was a moment that will remain with me forever and, I imagine, define my course to come. So let me tell you the story… I was … Continued