A question that shapes how I live: how often do we really experience what's happening? Here. Now. On Miksang contemplative photography, the labels that arrive before we've experienced anything, and why I've come to understand leadership as an art of seeing. With a gallery from Malta.

I learned to swim before I could walk, and to fear the water thanks to Jaws. Moving to Malta, where the sea is clear enough to see the bottom, made me ask what I was really afraid of, and what that means for leading people through change.

Twenty years of leadership books taught me to see. Twenty novels — read through grief and a move across the world — showed me how to feel.