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Finding Clarity
How Compassionate Accountability Builds Vibrant Relationships, Thriving Workplaces, and Meaningful L
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A SURPRISING PATH TO BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS
For Marc Lesser the key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces is compassionate accountability - a practical and trainable way to clarify and achieve shared visions of success. Numerous examples include:
• facing rather than avoiding conflict for the long-term benefit of all.
• working with and through difficult emotions with clarity, care, and connection.
• understanding the stories we live by and evaluating whether they're serving us well.
• learning to listen and lead in ways that align with our mission and values.
Marc works from the premise that problems are inevitable and that the success of an enterprise or relationship relies on how they are resolved. This applies to any joint effort - in a workplace, a family, a civic organization, a community, a country, or the world at large.
Marc Lesser is a CEO, executive coach, and Zen teacher. The founder and CEO of three companies, Marc helped develop the Search Inside Yourself program within Google. He has an MBA from New York University and lives in Marin County, California.
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"A gift that will keep on giving, helping us find a way to work together with collaboration, care, and 'compassionate accountability' as we cultivate more cooperation in whatever endeavors we pursue."
- Daniel J. Siegel, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mindsight
"This kind of clarity is hard to find, never mind cultivate within an organization, and so it is priceless. Anybody who puts mindfulness and the ancient 'wisdom beyond wisdom' practices of the Heart Sutra at the heart of their work deserves the deepest respect and attention. The invitation and the challenge then is, critically, implementation - that is, to actually live it, to do nothing less than to embody and enact it within one's own life and the culture of one's organization. No one has more cred and more experience in this regard than Marc Lesser. Paying attention to Marc's approach may not only transform your business; it may literally transform your life."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction) and author of Full Catastrophe Living and Coming to Our Senses
"Marc Lesser's skill in developing ways to make modern workplaces meaningful and compassionate, as well as productive, keeps getting better and better. His aptness in finding just the right phrase that will stay with you (helped, in this case, by Homer Simpson, the Buddha, and Alice in Wonderland) is prodigious. His wisdom about the ways we commonly work against ourselves is tempered by his gentleness. In Finding Clarity, his fifth book, Marc shows us how clarity, compassion, and accountability not only can but must go together for organizational and personal success. The book is full of clear and actionable practices for developing these skills. Thanks, Marc, for a lifetime of reenvisioning what it means to go to work."
- Norman Fischer, poet and Zen Buddhist priest, author of When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen and Selected Poems 1980–2013
"This important book gives the fortunate reader a clear path to the cultivation of clarity in relation to moral integrity and accountability."
- Rev. Joan Jiko Halifax, abbot at Upaya Zen Center
"Because he is a highly trained Zen teacher, Marc Lesser resembles an expert fly-fisherman. He is mindful of the back-cast, allowing the line to unfurl before committing to a forward flick to settle the nearly weightless fly in a beguiling manner onto water, where the prize resides. The fly is insight itself; the line is mindfulness, having both feet planted in the stream; and the artistry to describe it is his training and gift. Without cant or jargon, this book offers the reader every tool they need to be more productive, efficient, and happy. And, like every good fly-fishin
For Marc Lesser the key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces is compassionate accountability - a practical and trainable way to clarify and achieve shared visions of success. Numerous examples include:
• facing rather than avoiding conflict for the long-term benefit of all.
• working with and through difficult emotions with clarity, care, and connection.
• understanding the stories we live by and evaluating whether they're serving us well.
• learning to listen and lead in ways that align with our mission and values.
Marc works from the premise that problems are inevitable and that the success of an enterprise or relationship relies on how they are resolved. This applies to any joint effort - in a workplace, a family, a civic organization, a community, a country, or the world at large.
Marc Lesser is a CEO, executive coach, and Zen teacher. The founder and CEO of three companies, Marc helped develop the Search Inside Yourself program within Google. He has an MBA from New York University and lives in Marin County, California.
MarcLesser.net
"A gift that will keep on giving, helping us find a way to work together with collaboration, care, and 'compassionate accountability' as we cultivate more cooperation in whatever endeavors we pursue."
- Daniel J. Siegel, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mindsight
"This kind of clarity is hard to find, never mind cultivate within an organization, and so it is priceless. Anybody who puts mindfulness and the ancient 'wisdom beyond wisdom' practices of the Heart Sutra at the heart of their work deserves the deepest respect and attention. The invitation and the challenge then is, critically, implementation - that is, to actually live it, to do nothing less than to embody and enact it within one's own life and the culture of one's organization. No one has more cred and more experience in this regard than Marc Lesser. Paying attention to Marc's approach may not only transform your business; it may literally transform your life."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction) and author of Full Catastrophe Living and Coming to Our Senses
"Marc Lesser's skill in developing ways to make modern workplaces meaningful and compassionate, as well as productive, keeps getting better and better. His aptness in finding just the right phrase that will stay with you (helped, in this case, by Homer Simpson, the Buddha, and Alice in Wonderland) is prodigious. His wisdom about the ways we commonly work against ourselves is tempered by his gentleness. In Finding Clarity, his fifth book, Marc shows us how clarity, compassion, and accountability not only can but must go together for organizational and personal success. The book is full of clear and actionable practices for developing these skills. Thanks, Marc, for a lifetime of reenvisioning what it means to go to work."
- Norman Fischer, poet and Zen Buddhist priest, author of When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen and Selected Poems 1980–2013
"This important book gives the fortunate reader a clear path to the cultivation of clarity in relation to moral integrity and accountability."
- Rev. Joan Jiko Halifax, abbot at Upaya Zen Center
"Because he is a highly trained Zen teacher, Marc Lesser resembles an expert fly-fisherman. He is mindful of the back-cast, allowing the line to unfurl before committing to a forward flick to settle the nearly weightless fly in a beguiling manner onto water, where the prize resides. The fly is insight itself; the line is mindfulness, having both feet planted in the stream; and the artistry to describe it is his training and gift. Without cant or jargon, this book offers the reader every tool they need to be more productive, efficient, and happy. And, like every good fly-fishin