Last week I mentioned that I was writing a book for my college students on self-discovery. Thank you for your responses to the two questions I asked you to consider: How has gaining more self-awareness helped you to achieve success in your life? What activities and experiences have been most important to help you become more self-aware? The responses I received have been extremely helpful. Please, if you have not done so, feel free to respond to the questions. Here …
Dr Rob: The Importance of Self-Awareness Today, I write to ask for your help on a project I am working on this summer. In preparation for my two fall classes at the University of Michigan (one for seniors at the Ross School of Business, and one for graduate students at the Center for Entrepreneurship in the School of Engineering). I am writing an e-book, which will serve as a workbook for my students (and for my coaching clients). The tentative …
Forget Trying to Control People Leaders worry themselves to death over how to get people to do what they want them to do. In my book Conversations with My Old Dog, I write in a series of poems about the “talks” I used to have with my aging yellow lab Lucy. The poem titled Control includes these lines: We people spend much of our time on the illusion of control — we order our lives and try to order the …
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My friend Carol Sarosik shared a video last week of Maya Angelou’s January 2011 appearance on Oprah’s Master Class. In it she talked about being grateful for all the rainbows in her life and the importance of being a rainbow in somebody’s cloud. She said that when she went onstage, taught, or faced any difficult situation she brought with her the people “who had been rainbows in her clouds.” These people, living or dead, black or white, straight or gay, provide her the support she needed to …
In honor of Father’s Day and Men’s Health Month, I am delighted to share a snippet from a book I co-authored 26 years ago, Men in Therapy: The Challenge of Change (Guilford, 1990). Here is the introduction from a chapter on ‘Men and Friendship”. As you read this, remember the book was written in 1990. I am interested in your opinion about how much have things changed about men in friendship in the past 26 years. In 1984 a …