While an oblique shaft of illumination brings insight, new futures, and real thinking, people don’t want it when they’ve got a house to clean, or whatever it is considered essential.
CHARLES E. SMITH Ph.D is Executive Editor of the Journal of Collaborative Innovation in the Library of Professional Coaching. A highly-experienced Futurist, Author, and Executive Coach, current interests are in deep dives into the nature of Collaborative Innovation, conscious conversations, and engaging large numbers of kindred spirits and businesses. For fifty years, he has been a personal and leadership coach and organizational behavior consultant stimulating breakthrough thinking, culture change and seemingly impossible results. A graduate of the Boston Public Latin School, Charlie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Relations from Harvard College, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, and a Certificate in Gestalt Methods from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. He was Visiting Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, former President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of New Mexico, and Editor of Transformation Magazine published by the Library of Professional Coaching. Dr. Smith has written three books, "The Merlin Factor, Leadership and Strategic Intent” "Navigating from the Future," “Don’t be a Noddle in Someone Else’s Soup” and many articles located in the Library of Professional Coaching and Eruditio, a Journal of the World Academy of Art and Science.
While an oblique shaft of illumination brings insight, new futures, and real thinking, people don’t want it when they’ve got a house to clean, or whatever it is considered essential.
Based on decades of informal, unverified, and unscientific observation, the checklist for obstacles to Effective Coaching (EF) includes:
Blessed are those who have full lives and do not fly In this technology mad non human universe.
Most of what we think and do is locked in place by explanations based on past experience and justify long-held points of view.
Listening does not cause culture change. Listening is culture change. Culture changes in the very moment you listen, not later.
Corporate Love is about corporate priorities and humanity.
Living is a thing you do now or never. Which do I? I never know the right thing to do. I only know what I can do
If beauty, truth, and the good are the same, how this intersects with money and pragmatics is lost on me.
Is it possible to generate an escape velocity to break free of the gravity of the cultures and circumstances that keep us from going for our dreams with courage and conviction?
Here are some excerpts from a Book of Universal Wisdom translated so people can practice it.
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