LEADERSHIP 101

  Connected Wisdom What came to your mind when reading the story? How can you relate the lessons of the story to your real life? What comes to my mind is my country and I can relate it to the story by seeing what is happening on the streets now. Nobody seems to care about others’ well-being. It is just me, me and me. Even though we have gone through rough times and we have actually faced death -we’re still facing it with the virus around- many people seem not have learned the lesson. Everybody is arguing about who deserves what and many people just want every single measure or regulation to be adapted to their own interests. A lot of people think they are more important than others and that they are the ones who need support and complain because others are receiving the support and in the end, problems keep coming and solutions are not got. Really sad.   Think about an environmental and/or social system of interest to you. List 5-6 essential elements and process...

  The Call to Courage What 2-3 concepts or quotes from Section 2 are most interesting or important to you? Why? I will keep  “ We should all be held accountable for being both optimistic and realistic” , in the second chapter of Dare to Lead, it is stated that if we label people we are not leveraging the fullness of their potential. The financial will always be the financial and that is it, the marketing guy will always see things from that point of view and that’ll be it. It will be difficult for everyone to have an open vision of the picture if they are labeled. Setting boundaries : We need to understand it is good to feel certain things but the reactions as a result of these feelings need to be controlled. It is OK to be angry but it is not OK to yell at someone if you are, for example. We can’t do our jobs when we own other people’s emotions or take responsibility for them as a way to control the related behaviors, for one simple reason: Other people’s emotions are not our...

Initial thoughts... 1. What ELSE do you consider essential for individual and collective well-being? What skills are needed to make this happen? We need to understand that as social beings, we need people and people need us. We are part of a system that works because we exist. So, if I, as part of my community, find a way to grow, to be a better human being, to progress, I can then affect my community in a positive way. Tolerance, patience, understanding, being able to focus, are some of the skills I consider you need to make this happen.   2. What ideas from our group discussions would you like to remember to think about? Courage as a result of being vulnerable. Listen to actually pay attention. Two of the other permissions I remember my team sharing that day were “Listen with passion” and “Ask for breaks if we need them.” "This type of binary thinking is very dangerous because we’re not leveraging the fullness of people. The roles become caricatures and stereotypes: Juan is ...

Some initial thoughts... 1. What do you consider essential for individual and collective well-being? What skills are needed to make this happen? What is essential is understanding that as human beings, we are social beings, who need to live in society and this being said, we have to tolerate and be tolerated in order to survive and be part of the community. # 1 Tolerance # 2 Knowledge of what is actually happening / needs and situations # 3 Understanding / people's skills  2. What ideas from last week would you like to remember to think about this week? I think vulnerability is key in order to understand and be aware of what is happening to work and learn collectively. Remember that if we are vulnerable we can respond with love and connection and also with shame, while shame works in an isolated way (it doesn't survive being spoken) it disconnects you from the world. It keeps you aside. 3. What would you like to remember from the Group meeting? We need to create a good environm...

Pre-reading tasks for Ch. 1: How do you define vulnerability? How does Brown define vulnerability? Vulnerability is showing how weak you are. How easily to get hurt a person is. Vulnerability   is  defined  as “uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure.  Brené  says that “ vulnerability  is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy and creativity. 2.  Why do we need feedback? Whose feedback matters to you? because feedback always provides you with a fresh view of things, from a different perspective My kids -my oldest daughter, my director, my partners in the business 3.  Which vulnerability myth do you see demonstrated in your school/family/life? You can engineer discomfort out of vulnerability: There is no way we take the discomfort out of vulnerability, it is there and it will be there. We just need to learn how to deal with it and how to make it less of a problem. When we don't know something in class, we may not feel like p...

What is important to you right now about learning about mindfulness?   Basically to focus. To concentrate and organize and deal with the urgent 1.     Optional Mindfulness/Empathy Practice 1.     What did you do/practice?  I was going through tough times, my daughter had lost some relatives and had others in hospital due to Covid19, and it was necessary to disconnect and do something to recharge batteries and forget a little where we were. My kids and I decided to make a trip in our minds and go visit some other planets, galaxies and worlds, we decided to use the living room near the balcony and play some “astral” music with very low volume and closed our eyes and started. We did a 30 minute trip which became now our every other day activity before going to sleep.  1.     What impact did it have?  We relaxed and had lots of fun as well. We had the chance to enjoy some quality time together and now they use this a...

            Connected Wisdom: Cooperation and Partnership   1.     What came to your mind after reading the chapter and the story Stone Soup? What are 2-3 ways, if any, that the lessons of the story link to your real life? Please describe the connection(s).    I have grown up in a family that never stopped sharing to find common well-being. We were always like that until my grandmother passed away. It seems like we have all been connected because of her and when she was gone, we sort of disconnected. My uncles -the direct descendants of my grandmother, kept together but the grand children and later generations did not get it.  My country is unfortunately, full of people like this. You can see it in our Congress, people who are elected only to find the way to promote laws on their behalf without considering common well-being and what they do is just keep damaging and destroying the country and its economy. Laws t...

WEEK 2:  Cornerstones of Individual and Community Well-being    What impact did the discussion have on you?  I think the fact that we all had understood the idea of how connected we are and how every single thing we do  can affect directly or indirectly  people in our environment: community, home, work, etc.  As leaders working on developing our skills to become better people, this is an aspect we cannot leave behind since it is relevant to create a sense of belonging. 2. What 2-3 concepts from the week are most in your mind and heart right now? Why? Mindfulness and the way it makes you focused when you practice it consciously and at easy. I never had noticed how powerful it was just to take a few minutes / seconds of your time and disconnect to reconnect, more than amazing. Vulnerability and courage linked together. I strongly believe that vulnerability triggers courage, when exposed to risk you react by working in finding ways to protect yourself, so...