Category Archives: June 2006

Leadership Quote

Leadership Quote / June 2006

“Whenever we think in terms of ‘leadership,’ we create a dichotomy: (1) leaders, a select and privileged few, and (2) followers, the vast majority. There follows the implicit judgment that leaders are some how superior to followers. So you get secrecy, distrust, overindulgence, and the inevitable sacrifice of those below for the benefit of those above. The word leadership, in fact, immediately creates a ranked division of people in ways that do not serve healthy organizational relationships. It also produces

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / June 2006

Watch out for SHAMs

It has become pretty clear that self-help programs do not, in themselves, work. Evidence to the contrary is anecdotal, as far as I can discover. Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic, recently published a short article in Scientific American debunking self-help from fire walking to Tony Robbins. “Do these programs work? No one knows…no scientific evidence indicates that any of the countless SHAM techniques – from fire walking to 12-stepping – works better than doing something else …