“Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.” IfsWayWritingMeanSelfTurnsEnergySourceSorrowJudgmentEmpathyGuiltDisappointmentWitPityInnocenceIronyEmpoweringOriginalityAggressionWoundedMisunderstoodDeliberateSelf PityOthernessSillinessOddnessPerverseness Author:Ted Solotaroff
“Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.” PeopleWantEnergyVisionGroupsAchieveCreatingStrategySpeedSettingSettingsEmpoweringEnablingBetter Future Book:Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World Source: Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World
“Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.” HumansLongSometimesLightEnergyLeadershipDarkShadowCastsEmpoweringIntensityEnlighteningElusiveBright LightsEnigmatic Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad