by Mark Edge | Aug 4, 2020 | Emotional Health
“… If a society is to evolve, or if leaders are to arise, then safety can never be allowed to become more important than adventure.” –Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix (Bethesda, MD: The Edwin Friedman Estate, 1999),...
by Mark Edge | Aug 3, 2020 | Emotional Health
“The focus on safety has become so omnipresent in our chronically anxious civilization that there is real danger we will come to believe that safety is the most important value in life.” –Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve Leadership in the Age of the...
by Mark Edge | Jul 30, 2020 | Emotional Health
Edwin Friedman wrote that first and foremost of the displacement issues into which American citizens pour their anxieties are those having to do with safety. Hmm. Can you think of any lately? Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix...
by Mark Edge | Jul 29, 2020 | Emotional Health
Words from almost 25 years ago that apply today: people “inject” their anxieties into national issues. These issues “serve as a distraction from having to deal with personal responsibility elsewhere.” Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve...
by Mark Edge | Jul 8, 2020 | Emotional Health
“Employees perform better when they can try out new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy.” –Ethan Bernstein, “The Transparency Trap.” Harvard Business Review (October 2014): 61. Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on...
by Mark Edge | Jul 6, 2020 | Emotional Health
You and I cannot live well with an emotional conjoined twin. “con”—a prefix meaning “together or with” “join”—a verb meaning “to link or connect” “conjoined twins”—a noun meaning “twins that are physically joined at birth, sometimes sharing organs, and in some cases...
