Posts by Maurice Nicoleau
The Leader Who Does Not Reciprocate
At the senior level, two kinds of leaders look identical from the outside: the one who has built capacity, and the one who has become expert at managing what they cannot absorb. They are categorically different. Almost nothing in executive culture distinguishes them, which is what makes the territory so hard to see. The vocabulary…
Read MoreNothing to Transcend — 4 min read
Most of what gets sold as spirituality is a way of leaving. It promises height — a rising above the ordinary weather of a life, a place past the reach of what disturbs you. Empty enough, calm enough, evolved enough, and the difficulty of being a person is supposed to fall away beneath you. The…
Read MoreYou Have Never Met a Stranger — 4 min read
The person across from you is not the one you are reacting to. This is the part most people never quite believe, even after they’ve felt it a hundred times. You are in a conversation with your partner, and something they say — a tone, a pause, a particular way of looking away — moves…
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