CEOs and executives have many signs pointing us in many directions. We have fiduciary duties to our organizations. We have ethics and compliance statements providing formal and informal decision guidelines. We hold memberships in professional associations and know their ethical standards. We operate under laws and regulations aimed to keep us, our competition, and society […]
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We all agree that life is important. Yet even the most gifted among human beings make decisions which squander hours, days, weeks, months and collectively, years. Even if we are accomplished professionals, sometimes the most important areas of life–deep inner emotional health, or living lives with daily joy and peace, despite changing external conditions–is an elusive […]
What is Moral Injury? We know or have heard of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in regard to combat veterans. “Moral Injury” (MI) is a fairly new classification of a condition they suffer being discussed by psychologists and psychiatrists. On the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, two PhDs, Shira Maguen and Brett Litz, wrote a […]
Regardless of what Thanksgiving has become or is to our nation, or in your personal or family traditions, the name of the holiday calls for and invites personal and collective reflection on the sources and influences in our lives for which we should be thankful. We should be thankful for Thanksgiving at least for the […]
The nature of compassion is connected with other persons. We cannot be compassionate towards ourselves. We cannot be compassionate apart from others. Compassion is a personal, subjective experience that arises within our minds and emotions when we see or hear of another person’s suffering. Compassion is our personal suffering, in some measure or form within […]