Archive for June, 2006

Discipline: The Art of Loving »

This is the second of 4 posts on Erich Fromm’s book The Art of Loving. According to Fromm, the practice of love requires discipline, concentration, and patience. Discipline, on the surface, seems like a strange concept to use in conjunction with love. We often think of falling in love and that love is an uncontrolled […]

Fromm 50 Years to Now: The Art of Loving »

This is the 50th anniversary of Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving. I believe this short book offers some powerful guidance for the infusion of love in strength based leadership.Erich Fromm was a psychologist and philosopher. Here is a line from the forward of his book on the art of loving.
I want to convince the […]

Management’s strong man plays the trombone »

Marcus Buckingham qualifies as the strongest proponent of a strength focus at work. Here is a snippet of an email I received about his latest film: Trombone Player Wanted.
I’m hoping that you’ll be interested in my new short-film series called, for reasons that should become apparent when you watch it, Trombone Player Wanted…..the point of […]