Hi everyone! One of the first mornings since surgery that I’ve felt like getting out of bed. I had less pain overnight and finally slept through the whole night! Yesterday, they took out my stitches, and I’m allowed to use my hand to wash my hair now. Yes, I’ll be less stinky! The swelling is also going down, and I’m beginning to recognize my hand again. I’m starting gentle physio to get my fingers moving. I also have to teach my brain how to use my hand and wrist again and how to work...

Tomorrow, I’m having surgery on my wrist. It is strange to write that sentence. For a long time, the pain was simply part of the background: something I worked around, adjusted for, and explained away. Then I fell down the stairs while packing. My wrist and knee were injured, and the pain became harder to ignore. At the specialist’s appointment, he looked at the X-rays and asked whether I had really been in pain for only two months. He could see that this had been going on for years. I...

A model can help us notice difference. It cannot tell us what another person’s difference means. A leadership model can teach us to listen more carefully. It can also teach us to sound empathetic while deciding who someone is before they have had the chance to tell us. That is the line I kept feeling during a one-hour talk I attended earlier this week. My skin was crawling, and at first I couldn’t explain why. I believe culture shapes us. I teach leaders to notice how culture influences what...