“Just because it’s rare, and just because somebody says it’s the best, doesn’t mean you even have to like it.” — Sarah Jane Curran Sarah Jane Curran is the host of the podcast Beer Me! She has focused her studies on beer in culinary school and grad school, she has been a beer director at… Read More
Scaling Leadership — Interview
“The complexity we face is actually an evolutionary pressure. We evolve or we die. And we’re there. We’re there as a species, we’re there in organizations, and we develop or else. And that’s harsh, but it’s also a spiritual bootcamp. It’s a kind of evolutionary pressure on us to evolve into more complex ways of knowing,… Read More
Melting into Relationship — Interview
“If you do the work to get yourself and your group to Stage 4, where you’re actually truly collaborating, you will be given offers in life to step in and participate effectively at Stage 5. This does not happen, this does not occur for the people at Stage 2 and 3. At Stage 3 they’re… Read More
Binding the Narratives Together — Interview
“I always knew that this is a very complex issue and that I don’t want to go for the easy victory. And I think this is what you can very much see in the structure in how we run Germany Close Up.” — Dr. Dagmar Pruin Every year Germany Close Up brings 250 Jewish Americans… Read More
Honoring Humanitarian Relief Workers — Interview
“If you have been to a hockey game or a baseball game . . . you see a phenomenon where at some point in the proceedings a military person is recognized for their service. Always for their service. And I’m not meaning to denigrate the service that the military make, and certainly a very significant… Read More
Being Unafraid to Be with Someone — Interview
“Exercise your witnessing muscle: Go find a good photography book and look at it long and hard. Look at the pictures and practice empathy. Practice witnessing a story that you weren’t there to see and I promise you will find yourself moved. And whatever the source of that empathy is, see if you can’t direct… Read More
Signaling in the Right Direction — Interview
We live in a world where your attention is the most valuable thing you have to offer. It’s in some ways even more valuable even than the money in your pocket, or even more valuable than your vote. The things you choose to allocate your attention to — the shows you watch, the news you… Read More
Finding Meaning Underneath the Plot — Interview
“We’re really interested in the plot of our lives, but we’re not as interested in the way the plot unfolds — the meaning underneath the plot. And if we were to get more interested collectively in not just what’s happening to me but making sense of what’s happening to me, that is a question that… Read More
Thinking for a Sustainable Planet — Interview
“How do we change our economic thinking so that we start to become people who are living in a way that’s compatible with a sustainable planet?” — Gray Cox To look at the world and everywhere see strife and material consumption that our planet is unable to sustain can be demoralizing. But particularly as we… Read More
Seeing the Humanity in Others — Interview
“Listen and do your best to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. That trait is the thing that has saved lives. It’s when people cut themselves off from that recognition of the other person as a human being — that is what gets degraded when we move toward mass atrocities: one of the first steps is to… Read More
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