by Tom Esch | Jan 10, 2017 | Uncomfortable Conversations, Blog
Are you looking for innovative ideas to build deeper relationships at work and home? Here is a real simple one that you can do with potentially powerful results. I tried it out this year at a big family Christmas party at our home. We planned for twenty-four people,...
by Tom Esch | Jan 3, 2017 | Uncomfortable Conversations, Blog
Have you heard the one about the monastery where the monks can only speak two words every ten years? A monk, after his first ten years, went to the abbot and said “Bed hard.” The abbot said “Bless you my son, go in peace.” Another ten years followed and the monk...
by Tom Esch | Nov 10, 2016 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
Well some of us here in the USA woke up jubilant and some woke up depressed recently. Shock, anger, disappointment and fear on one side. Joy, happiness and excitement on the other. This election process was so polarized, so split on values and so full of the...
by Tom Esch | Oct 20, 2016 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
This last Presidential debate made me think of an article recently written by author and speaker Charles Eisenstein. In “The Lid is Off” he talks about how it is getting harder to keep a secret these days. He refers to Trumps “locker room” comments,...
by Tom Esch | Jul 20, 2016 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
July 2016 It has been a rough week in the USA. When so many innocent men are murdered, in the context of racial fear and revenge, it is frightening. The killings of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota (about a mile from where I grew up), the Dallas...
