Sublime

this more effective deployment of self is cultivated by a potent set of concepts, metaphors, and practices. These foster the formation of five central competencies:

• Identity greatly influences our behavior. People tend to align their actions with how they see themselves.

people can be taught to make a realistic self-assessment, to assess opportunities competently, and then to make intelligent choices.

The better we know ourselves, the better we can recognize both what can be changed and how to change it, and what can’t be changed and what we can do about that. So no matter what you set out to do—whether on your own, as a member of an organization, or as its director—you need to understand how you and other people are wired.

A different understanding of her role was critical if she was to be successful in this new role. Janet had to become someone new.

Becoming is better than being

I’ve organized much of my life and work around the insight that real change comes when we engage consciously with our own mental processes. Along the way, I’ve become aware of the importance of what I call resourcing, which works on awakening in people their capacity for critical thinking and agency with regard to growing and expressing their perso