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Do you get in your own way?  Does your inner critic -- that voice in your head -- interfere with your ability realize your potential?   Most people admit that their negative self-talk can sabotage their own success.   For more than 30 years, Rick Carson's seminal book, Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way, has been a consistently strong seller.  Carson discovered his "gremlin-taming" method in the 70's while working families and individuals in Chicago.  No matter what the "presenting problem," he found that positive changes could happen only when people learned how to handle their critical inner voice as they step up to their inner challenge.   Learning to cope with your Gremlin is an essential-- and practical -- part of visionary leadership.  Find out why as Host Kate Ebner invites you to learn how to tame your gremlin with Author, Trainer and Executive Coach Rick Carson. 

 

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In our work at Nebo and at Georgetown University, we've been exploring two important and related questions:  what is transformational leadership?  what kind of leadership is needed in the 21st century? 

Change leader and Author Peter Block helped Kate answer these questions on Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life last Monday.  Among other things, Peter believes that the modern leader must be a convener of others, connecting their gifts and skills with real needs.  He spoke about the need for a shift from a "heroic" leadership model, in which people look to the leader for decisions and direction to another approach, wherein the leader's primary responsibilities include helping people to tap into their own capabilities in service to a real need.  While systems and structures are necessary, he said, we must not become passive consumers of the leadership of others, but rather see leadership as a responsibility to be shared.  "Technical genius won't solve problems until we decide we're in this together," he stated. "Systems are useful, but they don't always have the answers." 

Peter commented that within organizational life, our systems focus on providing negative feedback and asking people to conform to a set definition of success and performance.  He challenged us to invite others to bring their gifts and passions rather than spending time and energy asking them to conform. 
This approach could have a powerful, positive effect on our young people.  By cultivating their gifts rather than focusing intensively on teaching them to achieve within the system, we invite them to be part of a future they can care about.  As Peter Block put it, "We should develop in kids what they love and not try to make them good at so many different things just for the sake of achieving.  Nowadays, there's a dangerous tendency with our children to substitute achievement for meaningful contribution." 

Kate Ebner's conversation with Peter Block was far-ranging and moved from leadership to an exploration of community and the paradigm of abundance.  His vision challenges conventional thinking and invites us to consider life through a different lens.

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Listen as Peter Block challenges you to think about citizenship, consumerism, and community-building in a different way on August 20's episode of Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life.    

   

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