| A Shrinking Globe? |
 "At 40,000 feet the world is smaller -- but I see less of it than did Phileas Fogg. I have this sense that I am skimming the surface of vast complexity, seeing only the largest peaks and valleys. As we move further and faster, it seems we need new navigational skills. Not so much using the stars to find our way across vast oceans, but using our hearts to find our way across the chasms of bias and assumption."
[ Posted 11/28/06 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: ''Because I Said So'' and Other Ways of Leading |
| In honor of the Fourth of July, Independence Day here in the US, here is an article about struggling with independence and motivating employees (and kids) to be a little less... well... independent!
This article looks at motivating people to "do what they are supposed to do" and provides three key lessons for managers. At the end there are exercises, one for each lesson.
[ Posted 07/09/03 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Encompassing Attention |
| While parents clearly see how much attention they give their children, it's a surprise to see how much attention we get back. Attention is an incredible gift, a great power, and its free. What would happen if we learned to pay attention at work, at school, and at home -- to genuinely give our focus and care to one another?
[ Posted 03/18/03 - Read More ]
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| Knowing or Learning? |
| "Knowing" is about finding the one right answer. "Learning" is a process of discovery. Which drives you, your school, your business, your family?
[ Posted 02/14/03 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Out of the Fog |
| Driving through the rain, Josh sees a metaphor for finding your way through life. It demonstates the importance of feedback AND the need for intrinsic motivation -- two important applications of EQ, especially when it comes to creating change and meeting goals. This post also includes links to articles and research about motivation and intrinsic motivation.
[ Posted 01/06/03 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: "What Is" Part II -- Managing and Using Anger |
| In Part One, I asked about how to stay present and focused on the world, despite the overwhelming feeling that the whole thing is a mess. I also asked how to keep anger focused on positive change.
I received a wealth of suggestions about focusing on "What IS" and about productively using anger. Here is the summary, and below are many responses. The last response includes a trove of quotes on reality and hope.
[ Posted 10/02/02 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Making Decisions as the World Tour Continues! |
| Kate and I are on the plane returning from a powerful and inspiring experience in Mexico where I learned about using long-term commitments to step around fear and discomfort. Last week we had a group of Norwegian occupational health pracitioners for a two-day course in San Francisco, and in two days a team from EQ Japan is coming for a project.
[ Posted 10/02/02 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Global Emotions -- You Are Not Alone |
| Returning from a Certification training in Indonesia, Josh shares some realizations about how people around the world are all seeking connection, beloning, and personal mastery.
Also includes information about the Certification training program.
[ Posted 09/05/02 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: What IS? -- Using Rage to Create Change |
| In a recent certification course, a delegate mentioned a bumper sticker: "If you are not enraged, you are not paying attention." I got to thinking about all the ways I choose to not pay attention, and about pretending to not be angry.
Given all the problems in the world, how do I "make it ok" and what is the cost of those choices?
[ Posted 08/05/02 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: "Troubled Teens" -- From Tantrum to Devestation |
| Recently I've been wondering if any of us make it past the emotional development of a 2.5 year-old. I've been watching my daughter, Emma, turn the corner from "terrible twos" back to human, and I keep seeing her act out my own behaviors and the behaviors of other adults. This leads to questions about how "troubled teens" get that way, and how the "Egosystem" drives us to these battles.
[ Posted 04/18/02 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: When I Grow Up |
When Emma asked me, "Daddy, what do you want to be when you get bigger bigger?" it lead me to wonder about making plans, growing, and evaluating each year.
Fortunately, Emma also came up with an answer to her own question.
[ Posted 12/31/01 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Just Say YES |
| It is simple enough to be either simplistic or true: What we say is possible becomes possible; what we say is impossible becomes impossible. A key component of optimism is recognizing that you have the power to make change.
A key component of EQ is seeing that what keeps you from that possibility is your own patterns and fears about being powerful.
[ Posted 10/22/01 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: From Terror to Power |
EQ Thinking about the recent terrorist acts, including some ideas about how to move from terror to action.
"To take back the power, we must convert terror to fear, fear to concern, concern to learning, learning to commitment, commitment to action. This 'refining' can not happen unless we are willing to feel our feelings, then examine their sources. Change comes from learning."
Also includes an open letter to the President from Esther M. Orioli, the CEO of Q-Metrics with several specific ideas about how to lead with emotional intelligence in the face of terrorism.
[ Posted 09/16/01 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Interviews and a GREAT list! |
| Great new resources on the site: Interviews with Cary Cherniss and Geetu Geetu Bharwaney (formerly Ohme) about their new books, an EXCELLENT listing of EQ Benefits, and a hint to go visit the EQ Zone for back to school energizers.
[ Posted 08/26/01 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Anger (the really mad kind) |
Anger is misunderstood, and often closely tied to feelings of fear, shame, loss, and joy. It feels powerful and righteous, terrifying and dehumanizing, effective and out of control.
On reason for the confusion is that research runs contrary to opinion -- "venting" anger does not reduce it. So what does?
[ Posted 07/02/01 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Building Capacity |
| Struggling through 2-year-old tantrums to teach Emma to make pancakes is actually an exercise in building capacity. This concept is important to getting work done better -- but there are costs.
[ Posted 06/07/01 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Never Underestimate |
| Maxwell Abraham Freedman was born last night! I am amazed and delighted -- and worried... particularly about creating a family where our children do not need to wait to be adults in order to be friends.
[ Posted 05/03/01 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: In A Gentle Way You Can Shake The World |
| Before Emma was born, people kept saying things to me like, "Oh nothing will be the same...." "You don't know what you are in for...." "This is the end of 'just you'...." They were all right, and all wrong. Plus a list of new web tool announcements!
[ Posted 03/08/01 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Breathe Through the Pain |
| We learn how to manage physical pain, but emotional pain seems to be more elusive.
Perhaps just as "breathing through pain" keeps us present and active with physical pain, there are ways to do that emotionally.
[ Posted 02/02/01 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Web Tools to Build the EQ Movement |
New web projects underway -- share your thoughts! Includes 2 homework assignments professors can give for technology in education!!
1. Sharing EQ Lessons for Schools
2. Sharing EQ How-To
3. Share Your EQ Writing with the World
4. Educational Tech Idea for Teacher Ed
5. Discussion Group Discussion
[ Posted 02/06/01 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: Our World's Gold Medal Team |
| We are -- you and you and you -- we are on the cusp of
a radically different future. A future that will be either
full of heart, or devoid of the kind of love that is the
warp and weft of our greatest aspirations. And I am
proud to be on the dream team playing for that gold
medal.
[ Posted 09/20/00 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: The Excellence Hurdle |
| thoughts on using vision statements to create excellence.
The challenge is not simply performance -- but sustained and miraculous performance. What draws people over the excellence hurdle? The opportunity to do wonders.
[ Posted 07/20/00 - Read More ]
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| EQ Reflections: EQ Training Opportunities |
| Schedule and information about Six Seconds' summer 2000 courses, including the certification course Level I and II, the classroom management program, and the curriculum institute.
[ Posted 05/24/00 - Read More ]
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