The telephone game.
Who hasn’t played the telephone game?
It is fun to watch how a simple sentence changes after being passed along by a group of people.
A sentence like, “I want to order for breakfast scrambled eggs with spinach but no ham and a green tea.” changes to “I want to order for breakfast a fruit […]
Rollo May wrote once:
“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause…”
Woh!
I love these words. What wisdom!
As humans we have the freedom to pause but you don’t always do so. A reason can be fear. If you stop running and take a break, the boredom rising from not doing can be scary. You can compare it with the […]
A flight attendant’s job might look simple but I’m sure that it is not. Take, for example, the safety procedures. Each flight the same routine. Listening to a tape the flight attendants show what you need to do in a water landing – or more accurately, a crash. One procedure that reminds me of leadership […]
Pauses are essential.
“When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.”
Douglas Rushkoff
But pauses are also healthy from a leadership perspective when things are in control. The problem is that you and I are not so good at taking pauses.
Why’s that?
The main reason is that we’re addicted to Done-Gone […]
