Podcast

Episode 77: Presence-Based Leadership With Doug Silsbee, Part 2 [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Mar 19, 2018

This is part two of my interview with Doug Silsbee about his important new book: Presence-Based Leadership: Complexity Practices for Clarity, Resilience, and Results That Matter. Part one is here.

In this portion of the interview, Doug walks us through the core of his book: the nine window panes through which you can view leadership. It is a complex model and therefore eminently practical, because it matches the complexity in which we live.

It is also a serious and illuminating synthesis, one that invites all of us into a rich experience of what is right there before us.

Please take your time over the next sixty seconds to start listening—and then share with your peeps.

Highlights

6:30 We are highly trained to look outside us, but not within us
9:00 The meaning and limitation of legacy
14:00 What identity am I unconsciously seeking to perpetuate
20:00 Doug guides you to draw the nine panes (not while driving, of course!)
24:00 A business example that brings it alive
37:00 Regulating your inner state
42:00 Embodying what matters to us

Listen to the Podcast

Download l Listen in new window

Explore Additional Resources

New to Podcasts?

Get started here

Subscribe to the Show on iTunes (It’s Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without a Subscribe button (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on the Subscribe button. It’s in the upper left corner of the screen.

Give Me a Rating or Review on iTunes (It’s Also Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without “Ratings and Reviews” (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on “Ratings and Reviews”
Give it a rating. Bonus for a review

Episode 76: Presence-Based Leadership With Doug Silsbee, Part 1 [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Mar 12, 2018

Doug Silsbee joins me this week to discuss his remarkable new book: Presence-Based Leadership: Complexity Practices for Clarity, Resilience, and Results That Matter.

The book, like Doug himself, is a grounding presence, a heart-felt invitation, and a wise synthesis. He meets you where you are—offering practical insights and clever experiments to try—and calls you to sink a bit deeper into the place from which your life-force arises.

I was honored to speak with Doug. Within the first few minutes of the interview, you will learn why.

This is the first of two interviews with Doug. The next will appear a week from today.

Please listen and share widely.

Highlights

9:00 Art is creating what you don’t yet know
21:30 Today’s practicalities and why we are here both matter
29:00 It is audacious to be an offer in the world
31:00 What shapes our identity
36:00 In meetings, everyone lives in their own bell jar
39:00 Three levels of scale: context, identity, and soma
44:00 Three meta-competencies: sensing, being, and acting

Listen to the Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Explore Additional Resources

New to Podcasts?

Get started here

Subscribe to the Show on iTunes (It’s Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without a Subscribe button (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on the Subscribe button. It’s in the upper left corner of the screen.

Give Me a Rating or Review on iTunes (It’s Also Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without “Ratings and Reviews” (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on “Ratings and Reviews”
Give it a rating. Bonus for a review

Episode 75: Stomping the Blues, Reimagining American Identity with Greg Thomas [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Feb 26, 2018

Fasten your seatbelts. This week, we’re going on a rollicking, rhythmic, high-minded, and heartfelt ride through the core of the American experience.

Greg Thomas, our guide through the True but Partial Challenge on race and, more recently The Jazz Leadership Project with Jewel Kinch-Thomas, joins me again to steer us through this week’s journey.

Or should I say: journeys?

That’s how much territory we cover. Greg even coaxes me to steer out of my “interviewer lane” and riff on my own experience stomping the blues.

Listen to the Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

The focus of our conversation is Albert Murray, the great 20th century American writer and close colleague of Ralph Ellison.

Haven’t heard of him? Neither had I until a few months ago.

But since when did lack of fame mean anything about a person’s wisdom?

Like me, you will learn to take Albert Murray seriously. Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Toni Morrison does. She wrote, “Murray’s perceptions are firmly based in the blues idiom, and it is black music no less than literary criticism and historical analysis that gives his work its authenticity, its emotional vigor, and its tenacious hold on the intellect.”

Like me, you will get mesmerized by the ideas in Murray’s first book, The Omni-Americans. Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates wrote in his New Yorker profile of Murray (“The King of Cats”) that the book was “so pissed-off, jaw-jutting, and unapologetic that it demanded to be taken seriously.”

Highlights

6:00 Albert Murray’s influence on American culture and art
13:30 American identity synthesizes multiple roots
20:00 Murray’s devastating critique of “ghettoologists” and “safari technicians”
35:00 Decoding ancient fairy tales and applying them to life today
39:00 The blues idiom as life compass
43:00 The hero’s journey in American cultures, e.g. Harriet Tubman
46:00 Hero’s journey is an alternative orientation from Ta-Nehisi Coates and James Baldwin
55:30 We fear difference and are attracted to it. Can we integrate this into ourselves?
59:00 The Jazz Leadership Project
1:10:00 Apprentice, journeyman, and master

Explore Additional Resources

New to Podcasts?

Get started here

Subscribe to the Show on iTunes (It’s Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without a Subscribe button (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on the Subscribe button. It’s in the upper left corner of the screen.

Give Me a Rating or Review on iTunes (It’s Also Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without “Ratings and Reviews” (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on “Ratings and Reviews”
Give it a rating. Bonus for a review

Episode 74: Whites’ Self-Interest In Opposing Racism With Diane Woods [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Jan 24, 2018

You support Black Lives Matter and oppose racial discrimination because you want to help black people. If you have light skin, you can’t get much more noble than that, right?

Not quite. According to this week’s guest, leadership coach and retired executive Diane Woods, the idea that white people need to be altruistic toward blacks is itself a racist idea.

Huh?

Yes, you read that correctly.

In fact, as Diane explains, white folks have an intelligent self-interest in opposing racist ideas and embracing all of us as equally capable and worthy human beings.

I’ve known Diane for almost two decades. She hosted a book club I joined. Back then, I saw her as a fountain of wisdom and curiosity, and over time, those qualities have only grown.

Please join me in this second episode in my new series on the American experience with race. If you enjoyed my conversation last week with Greg Thomas—or, heck, even if you haven’t yet—you’ll want to tune into this one.

Please share with friends and colleagues so we can carry Diane’s voice far into the conversation around race and culture.

Highlights

5:00 Why Ta-Nehisi Coates and Diane weren’t surprised by white supremacists marching
9:00 Diane’s spiritual teacher’s blind spot around race
15:00 Evolution of race work over 50 years
20:00 Crafting herself to look good for white corporate America
31:00 Despite injustice, my inner life is mine and I will defend it
35:00 “They just don’t want us here”
41:00 “I may say racist things but I’m pure on the inside”
49:00 Racism is corrosive for white people
1:02:00 Whites freeing themselves from the burden of racism
1:05:00 Countering racism is in whites’ intelligent self-interest

Listen to the Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Explore Additional Resources

New to Podcasts?

Get started here

Subscribe to the Show on iTunes (It’s Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without a Subscribe button (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on the Subscribe button. It’s in the upper left corner of the screen.

Give Me a Rating or Review on iTunes (It’s Also Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without “Ratings and Reviews” (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on “Ratings and Reviews”
Give it a rating. Bonus for a review

Episode 73: Five Pivotal Thinkers On Race With Greg Thomas [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Jan 17, 2018

This week, writer and public speaker Greg Thomas, CEO of the Jazz Leadership Project, helps me launch a new podcast series on the American experience of race.

Greg provides a refreshing and nuanced take on a complex topic. Listen to him, and you will find that race is not just a political issue or a moral quandary. It also provides a rich opportunity to grow as a leader and live life fully. Whether you consider yourself white, black, Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern, or just plain Human, dive in with Greg, and you will come out a bit wiser and a lot more curious. Race is not what you think it is.

I met Greg through our shared interest in integral approaches to leadership, culture, and politics. When approaching topics with our “integral” fedoras on, we bring a mix of curiosity and critique. Rather than pick sides, we like to ask, “How is each perspective true, yet also partial? What wisdom does it offer, but also what are its blinders?”

In this conversation, we apply the integral lens to race in America. I call it the True But Partial Game. We explore five leading American thinkers on race. For each, I ask Greg to describe the both the wisdom they offer, and the perspectives that, if meshed with their own, would create a more accurate and pragmatic path forward.

What if we acknowledged both the systemic forces that constrain and the personal gifts and virtues that liberate?

Highlights

1:00 Why a series on race in America?
7:30 Interview begins
15:30 Integral view of race and culture
22:00 “So-called black people” and “so-called white people”
26:30 Whiteness harms white folks
31:30 Ta-Nehisi Coates—brilliant, bleak, and still growing?
41:30 Kimberle Crenshaw, “intersectionality,” and victimhood
46:00 Oppression is not a death sentence
50:00 bell hooks—love and the beloved community
1:01:00 John McWhorter—linguist and refreshing independent thinker
1:06:00 Cornel West—brilliant, influential, and stuck in critique

Listen to the Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Explore Additional Resources

New to Podcasts?

Get started here

Subscribe to the Show on iTunes (It’s Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without a Subscribe button (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on the Subscribe button. It’s in the upper left corner of the screen.

Give Me a Rating or Review on iTunes (It’s Also Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without “Ratings and Reviews” (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on “Ratings and Reviews”
Give it a rating. Bonus for a review

Episode 72: Friendship After #MeToo With Hilary Bradbury & Bill Torbert [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Jan 10, 2018

Is workplace friendship between women and men possible in a time of #MeToo? If so, what might it look like, and how can both women and men show up differently?

In our important societal discussion about sexual harassment and power, these questions aren’t exactly on the tips of people’s tongues.

Yet they are vitally important to the health of organizations and the quality of our lives. If men avoid women out of self-protective fear, who does that benefit? If men respond instead with new ways of silencing women’s voices, that moves us backwards.

Many women are angry. Many men are befuddled and/or defensive. Where we can meet each other for the good of all?

Credit Hilary Bradbury for these questions. I asked to interview her about sexual harassment, power, and adult development. She made a counteroffer—actually, two:

Let’s talk about friendship
Let’s include men in the conversation

Isn’t it great when people come up with better ideas than the one you started with?

This week, Hilary and Bill Torbert join me for an enlivening and provocative conversation that builds to a level of intimacy that I found heart-warming. Hilary previously spoke with me about power in relationships between women and men, and Bill about framing conversations for powerful results.

We talk at the cultural and societal level. We also talk about how their own friendship has evolved over decades, the subject of their recent book, Eros/Power: Love In The Spirit of Inquiry.

Tune in, share with your peeps, and let me know what you think.

Highlights

15:00 Women’s rage
27:00 From unilateral power to mutual power
36:00 When two people become attracted at work
40:30 We cannot rely on police-like rules
43:00 The “whitest white woman” on the receiving end of rage
52:00 What to do with the urge to discharge?
57:00 When Bill shouts out in pain

Listen to the Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Explore Additional Resources

New to Podcasts?

Get started here

Subscribe to the Show on iTunes (It’s Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without a Subscribe button (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on the Subscribe button. It’s in the upper left corner of the screen.

Give Me a Rating or Review on iTunes (It’s Also Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without “Ratings and Reviews” (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on “Ratings and Reviews”
Give it a rating. Bonus for a review

Episode 71: Biology of Power & Sexual Harassment With Janet Crawford [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Dec 14, 2017

This week on the podcast, I welcome back Janet Crawford to discuss sexual harassment as an expression of high and low power tactics rooted in human biology. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and experimental psychology and her own professional and personal experience, Janet brings to light many subtle dynamics overlooked in the public debate about this charged topic.

Janet is a highly regarded executive coach and public speaker based in the Bay Area.

Janet and I previously spoke about leaders’ brains, emotional literacy and power and, more recently, about being a good guy and breaking with the Bro Code.

Highlights

3:00 Biology of power. High and low power tactics.
9:00 Why do many high power men not harass?
16:00 Why women wait to come forward—a big list
22:00 Why are women coming forward now?
30:00 Professional harm versus sexual harm
37:00 Women walk a tightrope based on how high power people will evaluate them
40:00 Women’s backlash against women. Men’s backlash against men
52:00 Men get an “aha” when they see how power works
1:00:00 A young Janet’s harrowing episode—and how she grew from it
1:18:00 How to stop harassment at low level insinuations
1:26:00 Janet uses humor to respond to a power challenge

Listen to the Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Explore Additional Resources

New to Podcasts?

Get started here

Subscribe to the Show on iTunes (It’s Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without a Subscribe button (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on the Subscribe button. It’s in the upper left corner of the screen.

Give Me a Rating or Review on iTunes (It’s Also Easy!)

Sign into iTunes using your ID and password
Search the iTunes store for “Amiel Show”
If you get a screen without “Ratings and Reviews” (a screen that looks like this), click on the show logo in the lower left corner
Click on “Ratings and Reviews”
Give it a rating. Bonus for a review

« Previous Page