What You Appreciate, Appreciates

Attention is a kind of irrigation. Whatever the leader looks at, grows. Most leaders are unaware of what they are watering.

5 min

The attention audit

Track, for one week, the first sentence you say to each direct report. Notice how often it is a question about a problem, a deadline, or a risk. Notice how often it is a question about life, craft, or the thing that is going well.

The ratio is your culture, in miniature.

Tangents · follow a thread

Sister titles · outbound

External
Fun. The Fifth Factor. ↗
Play as a strategic production input — Vogue meets Yoga Journal, leadership division.
External
Haute Lumière — Keystone Organizations ↗
Integrator Initiative — the org-form companion.
External
Luminous Insights ↗
Field notes across the Luminous 100.

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Building the New ↗
Founding as a spiritual practice with legal filings.
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Conscious Leadership in Action ↗
The verbs, not the poster.
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Creating Keystone Organizations ↗
Companies that hold ecosystems together.
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Evolutionary Leadership ↗
Leading from the edge of your own becoming.
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Future of Evolutionary Organizations ↗
Post-mechanical company design.
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Healing Organizational Trauma ↗
What the culture is still flinching from.