Go watch James Robinson’s exquisite video: How Life Looks Through My ‘Whale Eyes’. Read on for my 24(!) favorite lines in which Robinson takes a complex, uncomfortable and challenging situation (how being made to feel different feels lousy), and made it simple, accessible and relatable.
Leadership Truths Via Amanda Gorman
Thank you for your transcendent performance yesterday, Amanda Gorman. I join the chorus in shouting: BRAVO! Tasked with composing a poem about national unity (honestly, I don’t know how you did it!), you did not succumb to platitudes. I appreciated how many fundamental truths—key challenges for many of my leadership coaching clients—were woven throughout your poem. Here are seven. I’m sure there are countless others.