Category Archives: taoism

The Leadership of Letting Go, Part 4

Leadership is about taking decisions, especially good ones.  At the same time, if we are attached to the outcome, then the quality of our decision-making can suffer.  In his book Awareness, Anthony De Mello tells of a saying from the Chinese philosopher Tranxu: “When the archer shoots for no particular prize, he has all his [...]

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Leadership and the Iraqi Question

In leadership development programs I run, I am often asked how I rate President George W. Bush. An article by John J. McSheffrey in this weekend’s International Herald Tribune, describing his response to being on a plane carrying a military coffin, provides an example of why his style is not one I would want to [...]

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