Faith, Fiction, Friends

For some 15 years, roughly 1996 to 2010, poet David Whyte was the missionary of poetry to business. And he was a very specific kind of...

It was 1996. I was in a bookstore, likely the Barnes & Noble not far from my house. I spotted a small book with an unexpected title: T...

Reading The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America by David Whyte has been a both familiar and a s...

I have a job that scares a lot of people. I’m responsible for online media for my company, specifically social media – Twitter, Facebo...

Somehow, I missed having a mid-life crisis. I don’t feel particularly deprived, but the fact is that the time of life when a lot of men see...

I had been a supervisor for all of two days. I had been given a small function (two people – Ron and Barbara). I was attending my first le...

Over at TweetSpeak Poetry, we’ve been reading The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America . Not coincid...

I was all of 24 years old when I stumbled into speechwriting, the discipline that would shape my career for most of the next 35 years. I ...

A friend and I were talking about a perennial topic – how organizations seek to control the environments they operate in. Control is, at mo...

There is a scene in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf where the hero emerges from the swampy lake with the head of Grendl’s mother. His own swo...

For more than 40 years, I have had a relationship with Beowulf . As a high school senior, our English textbook included two passages fr...

I first read David Whyte’s The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America when it was first published ...