The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2012

In The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age , John Heider writes: “ The leader who is centered and grounded can work with erratic people and critical group situations without harm. This has an incredible self-fulfilling power and vibrational magnetic energy that new research frontiers like quantum mechanics and mind-body medicine are only beginning to understand. Happy New Year!! May this be your best one yet!

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Women in the LEAD

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

As you rely less and less on knowing just what to do, your work will become more direct and more powerful. Lao Tzu a favorite Lao Tzu leadership book (by John Heider). I woke up today thinking about something I wrote sometime back when I was in an overwhelmed place. Unfortunately, I was so overwhelmed at that moment that I didn't have time to search for it. Somehow, the wisdom in the writing seemed to reach out to me anyway and I made it through all my fear. I FINISHED !

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Women in the LEAD

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

As you rely less and less on knowing just what to do, your work will become more direct and more powerful. Lao Tzu      a favorite Lao Tzu leadership book  (by John Heider) With that INSPIRATION of timeless wisdom, I am allowing my burdens to lift. Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

We consistently underestimate the power of narrative. In the 1940s, Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider created what has become a legendary piece of research that reveals the need for people to craft narratives. Heider created a short, simple animation of two triangles, a rectangle and a circle. McCarthy leverages a very powerful technique known to social scientists as the “identifiable victim effect.”

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