Poetry

Grief Rejection Resilience: A Mash-Up

Grief Rejection Resilience: A Mash-Up

Fifth in my 2021 summer compilation series is a three-way mash-up of grief, rejection and resilience. Read on for four inspiring images, two poems, three quotes plus links to one essay and one memorable rejection video. (And of course can’t type anything on this topic without including a link to my all-time fave poem: “What to do in the Darkness.”)

Leadership Truths Via Amanda Gorman

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.