Leadership – both body and mind0 The Soul of California Podcast, Nov 19, 2018 In this 45-minute podcast, Richard Strozzi-Heckler shares the importance of the body in leadership. The eyes, the walk, shoulders, breathing – it plays a massive role in how you are perceived and the confidence that you exude. Richard gives background on …
One of the most powerful coping mechanisms we’ve developed as human beings is the ability to adapt. One of the most dangerous coping mechanisms we’ve developed is the ability to adapt. In times of crisis-war, natural disasters, failure of economies, sickness, loss of loved ones, property and goods-we have demonstrated time and again a remarkable adaptability and resilience.
Vaclav Havel, the former poet president of Czechoslovakia, said that politics is the art of the impossible. In the current climate of hate, fear and violence dominating this electoral year, and leadership rhetoric throughout the world, we can say that politics is becoming the art of the demagogue. This is the leader that declares …
Recently skimming through his daughter’s books for her World Literature class, Richard came across James Joyce’s novel The Dubliners. Remembering what is required to engage with Joyce’s dense prose, he forged ahead anyway and came across a certain Mr. Duffy, who “lived a short distance from his body.” Mr. Duffy represents the post-modern everyman: cut off from his feelings, defined by rules and protocols, and lacking purpose and meaningful connections.
