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Coaching for Leaders

378: The Way to Stay Grounded, with Parker Palmer

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Parker Palmer: On the Brink of Everything

Parker Palmer is the founder and senior partner emeritus of the Center for Courage & Renewal and is a world-renowned writer, speaker, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He is the author of the newly published book, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old*.

Key Points

  • “The unexamined life is not worth living.” —Socrates
  • Encourage people to examine the fears they have about looking inward.
  • When we befriend what we are afraid of, it will become our friend.
  • “If you can’t get out of it, get into it.” —Outward Bound motto
  • Focus on building goodwill in your business because it repays many times over.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Certainly leaders are pulled in every direction, but perhaps just as common and maybe more challenging is when we're pulling ourselves all over the place.

0:11.0

On this episode, Parker Palmer on the mindset and the place. On this episode Parker Palmer on the mindset and the

0:14.7

inspiration to stay grounded. This is coaching for leaders episode 378.

0:20.3

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

0:27.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

0:33.0

This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.

0:37.7

Leaders aren't born, they're made.

0:40.3

And this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader.

0:47.5

You know, when we think about leadership, so much of leadership is a journey, it is growing each day for better or worse, and it is about

0:59.4

for a lot of us staying grounded. We are pulled in so many different directions as leaders

1:05.4

every single day and it is important for all of us to do what we often do on this

1:11.5

show every week,

1:12.6

which is to step back for a few minutes,

1:14.9

and to think about how we stay grounded,

1:17.0

not only for our own benefit,

1:19.7

but even more importantly,

1:20.8

for the benefit of the people,

1:22.1

we have the privilege to be able to

1:24.8

influence each day. Today's guest is someone who has done a tremendous amount of work in

1:30.6

so many areas that have been helpful to people in learning, in leadership

1:35.3

and teaching over his career and especially brings a tremendous perspective on

1:40.8

how to stay grounded. I am glad to welcome to the show today

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