See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 30 (Unpublished): Using It with skill Avoids violence From weakness of will Or a loss of purpose. Power skill [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 58 (Unpublished): When the country is governed well, People thrive. When the country is unjust and unmerciful, People become [...]
In 1891, Pope Leo XIII became one of the defining moral voices of the Industrial Revolution. His encyclical Rerum Novarum issued a warning that still resonates today: when technological and economic transformation outpaces human dignity, moral formation, and institutional accountability, the people least protected by those systems absorb the cost. More than a century later, Robert [...]
Richard Rohr has spent decades helping people recognize something many leaders, organizations, religious communities, and societies are now experiencing in real time: human beings struggle when they try to force living systems into single answers. That struggle is accelerating. You can feel it almost everywhere now. Leaders demanding certainty when situations require openness. Organizations trying to [...]
Seeing AND Using the Energy System of Polarities I first learned about rip currents when my family moved from Wheaton, Illinois to Sarasota, Florida during high school. Rip currents form where waves break onto the shore from opposite directions and the returning water finds a narrow channel back out to sea. From the beach, the surface [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE The unforced finisher, Is It. Much unfolds, With less effort. If leaders Followed It. — There’s a pollinator garden at Kayser Ridge that took years to settle into [...]
Why the Future Depends on Our Capacity to Leverage Polarities There is a dangerous misunderstanding spreading across the United States right now. Watch what happens when a city council debates a zoning change. Or when a school board discusses curriculum. Or when Congress attempts to pass legislation. Increasingly, citizens do not show up to engage with [...]
Strengthening uniquely human capacities in accelerating systems I’ve spent much of my professional life working across what initially appeared to be very different domains: executive coaching, team coaching, organization development, polarity thinking, leadership development, democracy work, systems thinking, and more recently the implications of artificial intelligence. For years I treated many of these as adjacent disciplines. [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 16 (Unpublished): Watch, listen, and be Empty space. Stillness returns Serenity. Without the wellspring, Life narrows. Reckless movement growing, [...]
See the Series Introduction for Just Tao It, Part I: HERE See the Just Tao It Series Introduction Tao/It on-ramp, PART II: HERE See Just Tao It, Chapter 1: HERE From my interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 19 (Unpublished): Reduce emphasis on piety, Ease returns. Reduce emphasis on rationality, What is natural appears. Reduce emphasis on [...]