Leadership Guides
Fostering Spiritual Kinship Reflections from Pamela Ayo Yetunde, author of Casting Indra’s Net For all the wonderful things people think Buddhism is about, I believe Buddhist practitioners remain under-resourced when it comes to interfaith (and by this I also mean interreligious) leadership and dialogue. Many things are said about Buddhism: it’s a world religion, it’s [...]
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Leveraging the Power of Intention An Excerpt from Boundless Leadership Conflicting intentions often lie at the root of our most ill-advised efforts. For instance, if someone criticizes us, we often feel the need to correct them. We may feel that we’re being helpful by setting the record straight, but our critic feels we’re being defensive [...]
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Thomas Cleary’s Translations of The Art of War, Strategy, and Martial Arts: A Reader’s Guide
Thomas Cleary (1949—2021) was one of the twentieth century’s greatest translators of Asian classics. He was extremely prolific, translating and authoring countless works. Shambhala Publications has published over sixty. His books have sold millions of copies and his translations have in turn been translated into over twenty languages worldwide. His first published project, in collaboration [...]
Navigating Difficult Conversations An excerpt from Compassionate Conversations Intention and Conversation Having a clear intention will literally help us navigate our conversations when we encounter difficult terrain. To enter a conversation (other than one that is simply social) without an intention is like walking into the wilderness without a compass. And yet we engage in conversations [...]
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Commentary on Politics and Conscience: Dag Hammarskjöld on the Art of Ethical Leadership by Roger Lipsey We have all become connoisseurs of leadership. Unintentionally, inescapably. This was already so in the pre-pandemic years of the Trump administration. However you assess those years, they were a civics lesson: checks and balances once taken for granted now [...]
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by Maureen Murdock, PhD, author of The Heroine’s Journey and The Heroine’s Journey Workbook “We are a community in which every life and every person counts.” —Angela Merkel Across the world, nations led by women are handling the scourge of the Covid-19 virus better than male leaders. The above quote by German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks [...]
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by Kimberly Myosai Loh, co-author of Compassionate Conversations This article is the third in a series of three, sharing perspectives from the book Compassionate Conversation: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson, and Kimberly Myosai Loh. Read the first article in the series, “What Makes a Successful [...]
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By Kimberly Myosai Loh, co-author of Compassionate Conversations This article is the second in a series of three, sharing perspectives from the book Compassionate Conversation: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, co-authored by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson, and Kimberly Myosai Loh. Read the first article in the series, “What Makes a Successful [...]
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