Listening Now Blog

I stole a glance at my watch.  How much longer was she going to talk for, I wondered?  Not much longer, I hoped.  I got it the first time around, and we were deep into the third telling.  Guy was clearly an ignorant selfish blockhead.  As I’d heard it (many times in the one sitting), [...]

I sat down to write this piece on the link between leadership and listening and got stumped.   The link between good leadership and listening seems so self-evident (and has been written about so extensively) that it was a challenge to come up with something fresh about it.  So I asked a number of leaders about [...]

In early December 2009, I was driving home from doing the grocery shopping and I had a moment of inspiration.  Right there in the car, at 60 kilometres an hour.  It happened so quickly, I almost dismissed it before the idea had time to take hold.  The idea was that I should take 12 months [...]

Distortion occurs quite frequently in human communication.  We hear a message, and instead of listening to all that is said, and only all that is said (“the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God”), we manipulate what we hear and twist it into something else.  Here are some reasons [...]