SUMMARY
Whitney and Ivan discuss how we need to bring intimacy to work, how Buddhist principles apply to people and companies, and how dignity might be more important than empathy right now.
GUEST
Whitney Hess, executive coach, writer and designer
HIGHLIGHTS
- If your work doesn’t acknowledge you for the whole person you are, or your values aren’t in alignment with your work, you’ll start to compartmentalize and both your energy and intelligence will become blocked.
- Both Whitney and Carl Smith wonder how to scale intimacy, but she’s realized the answer might be inspiring more people to become Whitneys and Carls. She’s pleased that many of her coaching clients become coaches themselves.
- We think of Buddhist philosophy of non-attachment as a personal thing, but Whitney counsels executives and companies that it’s okay to let go of business choices they made years ago that no longer serve them.
- Whitney tries to coach people not to be attached to titles, but to think about how they can be of service to the problem they want to solve, the population they wish to serve or the philosophy in the missions they’re committed to.
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