Leadership - Ep. #13: Short Bites with Mark Crowley

Name: Leadership - Ep. #13: Short Bites with Mark Crowley
Uploaded: 2020-05-31T21:58:20+00:00
Duration: 1 min 17 s
Channel: Virginie Glaenzer
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker reflects on the symbolic and practical significance of the human heart, describing it as a spiritual, feeling, and…

31 May 2020 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker reflects on the symbolic and practical significance of the human heart, describing it as a spiritual, feeling, and sensing organ that guides our inner sense of right and wrong. They argue that when employees work under leaders who manipulate or fail to provide trust, psychological safety, and a sense of value, an internal alarm signals unhappiness and misalignment. The speaker then expands the discussion to humanity’s evolutionary success, emphasizing that collaboration and cooperation—not competition—have allowed the species to survive. They advocate for a global mindset where interconnectedness and mutual care replace selfish competition, suggesting that such a shift would lead to far better outcomes for all.

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The word heart, with all that charge to it, has made me reluctant to say something that you did, which is this is sacred information. There is a spiritual aspect to this. In other words, our human hearts are feeling, sensing organs, and they guide us. And if we work for a boss who manipulates us or doesn't give us trust in an environment where we feel psychologically safe, safe and supported and valued and all those kinds of things, we have the message inside going, this isn't right and this isn't making me happy. And so you look at the human species, we survived through collaboration and cooperation. We didn't compete within each other and try to steal from each other and take. We shared, we gave to one another and made sure that each one survived. So I think that has to be on a global scale the message that comes from where we are today, which is we're all connected. And then if we are connected and we look out for each other rather than try to steal from each other or compete with each other, we're going to do far better. That's still a very big argument to overcome with a lot of people's minds.