
No man is an island
If everyone would activate their personal leadership more, we would come out of this crisis strengthened. Then the crisis becomes an opportunity.
Read moreThe announcement below pops up in my inbox this morning. John Whitmore passed away. Immediately I am transported back in time… some 15 years ago when I was a starting coach. “Coaching for performance” was the first coaching book in my library; I studied it;
Admired it for its straightforwardness and criticized it… sport metaphors were never really my thing. And then Chantal and I heard John Whitmore speak during a coaching conference a few years ago. All of a sudden I really “understood” it. One of his most known quotes is:
“I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.”
Whether in sports or anywhere else, awareness is key. Since that talk, I pay more attention to what I do, what I say and how I say it, raising my awareness for the things that are happening in my life.
RIP Sir John, your book stays prominently on my coaching shelf.
If everyone would activate their personal leadership more, we would come out of this crisis strengthened. Then the crisis becomes an opportunity.
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