Why traditional leadership fails
Virtually all leadership training today uses an approach that imparts someone else’s knowledge: an instructor in front of a classroom; an article that outlines a set of dos and don’ts; a website that describes how a firm doubled its revenue. This “third-person” learning is useful for tackling procedural problems such as how to write a performance review with teeth or how to size up a new market. But, while “third-person” education leaves learners with theories and explanations, it provides limited “first-person” access to transforming oneself as a leader.
Welcome to the Inward Journey of Leadership
Leadership and
Transforming Oneself
Personal transformation is about creating access to a broader range of ways of being, thinking, and acting in order to be more effective in dealing with those challenges for which conventional strategies are inadequate. Until we free ourselves from our hidden, long-standing beliefs and presuppositions about leadership, we will not be able to approach the issues from a different perspective, and we will not generate sustainable solutions for the world’s most vexing challenges.
Leadership Resources
Our focus is on providing leaders with the tools and practices to go deep inside, to challenge and revise their deeply entrenched frames of reference, and to “see” the world differently such that a whole new set of possibilities for change become available. That’s what the inward journey of leadership is all about.
Blogs
Expanding Your Leadership Intelligence Through SQ
The acclaimed developmental psychologist Howard Gardner taught us four decades ago that our long-standing notion of intelligence, based on IQ testing, is far too limited. To account for the huge range of human potential, Gardner proposed eight different intelligences...
Staying in Touch with Your SELF
Human burnout, a major problem in medicine today is, in a sense, the outcome of competing conversations of self-talk. Physicians want to problem-solve so they can provide the appropriate care for their patients. Now they are being told how much they can spend in the...
Questions Are More Powerful Than Answers
Can people change after 25? Based on what I’ve seen through my work with myself and others is, yes. However, that change is directly related to the degree that a person is willing to continue to ask questions of oneself.