by Martha Gelnaw | Apr 26, 2022
There was this point when I suddenly realized that life is made up of simply mastering the basic skills. Sure you can get to the fancy stuff, but only after you’ve become skilled at the basics. I’ve found this to be true over and over again, and never more true than...
by Martha Gelnaw | Apr 21, 2022
The South African writer Antjie Krog described meeting a nomadic desert poet in Senegal who described the role of poets in his culture. The job of the poet, he explained to her, is to remember where the water holes are. The survival of the whole group depends...
by Martha Gelnaw | Jun 29, 2021
I work with high powered people who express themselves with a force, an intensity, a volume, and a speed that often doesn’t take the readiness or the receptivity of their listeners into account. I tend a garden in Hell’s Kitchen, my neighborhood in Manhattan, New York...
by Martha Gelnaw | Apr 14, 2021
I My client, when he rose to become the head of a practice at a Big Four Professional Services firm, he needed to feel more comfortable in his role leading hundreds of Partners. Self-professed, he was at his absolute best when he was working with clients to solve...
