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Viktor Frankl’s most famous work, the book Man’s Search For Meaning, is one of my all-time favorite treatises on life. In it, Frankl details the horrors of his experiences as a trained psychiatrist and prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied…

The Fable of the Bridge by Rabbi Edwin Friedman presents a dilemma common to many of us. It describes a scene in which a young traveler embarks on a long trip on foot to accept a promising opportunity. During this journey…

I get it. Some folks just sit idly by and wait to perform until the heat’s on. They will complacently lead or manage their organization without purpose or focus because there’s no short-term pain. When money is on the line,…

At some point in my lifetime — perhaps sometime in the mid 1990s — listening fell out of fashion. At least in America. Stridency rose to prominence. The loudest voice in the room seemed to prevail. It didn’t seem to be a shift towards…

A colleague and I had just finished our coaching work for a client leadership team. We briefly exchanged a few glances of frustration and exhaustion that spoke volumes about our earlier experience. We then just sat on a hotel lobby…

By David Shechtman As absurd as the title of this article may sound, it’s the reality of most change efforts in the corporate world. Nearly every organization wants to change in some way — higher revenue, lower expenses, better marketing, greater efficiencies.…

Maybe you’re just like me. Maybe you came across Joseph Campbell’s work years ago and were taken by it. Maybe you saw an old grainy video of him speaking at The Esalen Institute or at some resort in Hawaii. Maybe…