Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern

David's View: Mindful Leadership with David Nichtern & Michael Kammers

Jul 1, 2022

David Nichtern and Michael Kammers discuss mindful leadership, conflict resolution, ego, intention, communication, and freedom. They explore the importance of transforming energy, fostering growth, and cultivating compassionate leadership in current systems.

20:45

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David Nichtern

Michael Kammers

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Quick takeaways

Effective leadership involves transforming energy and fostering growth opportunities for collective well-being.

Great leaders prioritize unification over dominance, utilize people's capacities, and navigate dysfunction for growth.

Deep dives

Understanding Mindful Leadership

Leadership involves recognizing the dance of leading and following, with a focus on mutual exchange and understanding roles in interactions. Great leaders are rare and require qualities beyond power-seeking, emphasizing unification over dominance. Conflict resolution is essential, requiring finesse and a lack of ego attachment. Effective leadership involves acknowledging and utilizing people's natural capacities while navigating their dysfunction for overall growth.

Introduction

6min

Exploring Mindful Leadership and the Role of Ego in Team Dynamics

4min

Navigating the Complexity of Leadership

8min

Exploring the Interconnectedness of Leadership and Clarity of Mind

4min

Exploring Ramdas's Transformational Journey

2min

Michael Kammers & David Nichtern offer perspective on the nature of freedom and how mindful leadership effects the systems we live within.

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In this timely David's View episode, Michael Kammers joins David for a discussion which dives into the importance of mindful leadership. Taking an honest look at our current leadership models in the United States, the Dharma Moon Duo offers insight into dancing and conflict resolution, ego and intention, capacity and dysfunction, as well as discernment, communication, and freedom.

"A leader has to take a big aerial view of the whole situation and somehow become a transformer. A leader has to know how to transform energy—to not reject energy, to see people's gifts, to see their obstacles, and continuously re-orchestrate the situation so that people have a chance to grow." – David Nichtern

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