Grief is an emotional reaction to loss. It is what we feel when we lose someone, something, or even a goal. Grief is the process we go through in the aftermath of that loss. Our problem is that our grief is often short-circuited. We have not been allowed, or do not allow ourselves, adequate time to grieve over our losses. Beginning with boyhood and continuing throughout the life cycle, we are told that the appropriate way to handle loss of …
Well-being begins with self-awareness. A key example of this insight comes from the research on emotional intelligence. Beginning with Professor David McClelland, whom I had the honor to learn from at Harvard University, and through the work of researchers Daniel Goldman and Rick Boyatzis, research consistently demonstrates that self-awareness is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence. In order to understand other people, we must first understand ourselves. In order to manage any relationship, we must possess self-awareness and other awareness. In order to manage …
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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