Les Mottosky

When two or more people are involved, consideration, attention, regard or care – however you want to frame it – is the major difference maker in the quality of those relationships. It also defines the collective of all those relationships (aka the culture.)

The tech era began in Silicon Valley and as the app-for-everything shake-up shifts to lay-offs-en-masse ushered in part by AI, we won't just see the error of our ways, we'll feel it.

Pine Pollen might be the superfood of superfoods. The list of over 200 nutrients is overwhelming, but here's the upshot: protein, carbs, fats, a dozen vitamins, another dozen minerals, enzymes, polysaccharides, nucleic acids (DNA/RNA building blocks) and – to the point of this article – steroids.

The human mind prefers simplicity not because reality is simple, but because cognition is expensive. Simplicity is how the brain conserves energy.

Humans are driven and directed by stories. The more deeply we believe in and feel the veracity of the story we tell ourselves, the more we behave in a manner that will realize that narrative.

Here are some conclusions we collectively accept, but in other cultures and/or other times the opposite was standard practice.

When these three intelligences are aligned, leadership stops being positional. It becomes cultural: a shared capacity to sense reality clearly.

To listen is to practice humility without surrendering strength. It holds the door open for insight to enter. It grants others the rare experience of being seen, felt and understood.