Says Bilbo, “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out one’s front door.” That dangerous business leads to adventure and connection. I love that kind of danger. So here’s Steven Howard, guru of Caliente Leadership (https://www.calienteleadership.com), whom I met while virtually meandering.
It took a while to finally talk, then longer to stop. I had to put the brakes on since the record button wasn’t.
We’ve both traveled a good bit, went out on our own in the mid 1990s, and we share devotion to questioning the conventional: “No more work/life balance—it’s about work/life harmony.” We prefer seeing leadership in terms of relationships rather than transactions, and we both look for what we can do, not what we can’t. Maybe the pandemic opens us to a better reality now that all our rectangles are the same size.