Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

“not the story of the wreck but the wreck itself.”

think differently.”

the busyness needed to create those—became proof of my worth as a human.

Our lives are twenty-four frames per second, with each frame a set piece of feeling, belief, obsession about the past, and anxiety about the future. Neither good nor bad, these frames form us.

“I am not what has happened to me,” taught Carl Jung. “I am what I choose to become.”

His body unfolds, and we all bear witness to his taking his seat not merely as a CEO but as a man, capable of providing for the boy under the overpass.

“How are you complicit in creating the conditions of your lives that you say you don’t want?”

Listening, I’ve come to understand, is bearing witness to lives unfolding, to lives being discovered. Deep listening, listening compassionately, means guiding, gently nudging, or sometimes shoving people down the path of radical self-inquiry so they can make their way to their own truest selves. Then, and only then, can they lead with the dignity a

Journaling Invitations How did my relationship to money first get formed? How did that relationship shape the work I’ve chosen and my definitions of success and failure? How does it shape my view of the quality of others’ work and contributions? What was the belief system around money and work that I grew up with? How does that impact my view of my

“Take your seat.” “Sit like royalty in your leadership seat,” I say. “Sit as if you’ve the right to be there.”