Energy Leadership

• He could tap into what the psychologist Carl Jung referred to as the collective unconscious, linking with the universal energy that permeates and surrounds all living things. • He could also unlock his innate ability for genius, accessing brilliant ideas and unlimited energy from everyone and everything around him. It’s like tuning your radio to

pointing out the positive wherever I could—even in the face of Richard’s self-defeating psychology. Some of his strengths were already evident, and I wanted him to know it. “I appreciate working with people who aren’t afraid to lay it all on the line and tell the truth.”

Richard said he posed an important question and asked Nate to please give it sincere consideration: “Ultimately, what would you like to have come out of this?”

“There you have it!” I announced. Not only did Richard falsely interpret the event, but his three employees also generated an assumption: Although Richard counseled his staff against participating on office gossip in the past, Christina, Joan, and Ruth interpreted that to mean he would always react negatively if he saw his staff talking and having

Level 1 victim energy, some Level 2 conflict energy, and some Level 3 responsibility energy. When you operate on an average of Level 2, your world seems in conflict, threatening, and unsafe. Again, this explains why you think the way you do and act the way you do. Even your non-action, such as your not completing your assignments, makes sense. You’

up. “You know our Post-it Notes? This scientist at 3M, Spencer Silver, came up with them while he was supposed to be working on a super-strong glue. But all he could make was a super-weak one. Instead of just throwing his invention away, he realized that his ‘failure’ could actually be turned into a major success.”

“What you’re saying is easy enough to see,” she said. “My viewpoint of a particular situation is what I believe is the only explanation. If I’m not aware of another point of view, I might waste a lot of time marching off in the wrong direction.”

See if you can pinpoint other people’s energy levels by using the I Chart as a guide. (This was Richard’s assignment to himself.) • Answer the following questions without concerning yourself with the “right” answers (because there simply aren’t any “right” answers): • Put yourself forward in time six months from now. Covering as many areas of your

This is how you begin to rethink, or recreate, your interpretation of who people are and what they do. Anyone who pushes your buttons prompts you to come to a real understanding of why you have those buttons to begin with.