C-suite and other senior leaders need to understand how their inner life is affecting their actions in the outside world in a challenging world. Corporate leaders focus on doing more than deep thinking, leaving what is going on internally a vast unexplored territory. What they are feeling, where they are feeling triggered, and how early experiences in their lives affect the choices they make in the present are all included. To develop on leadership skills like prioritization, decision-making, accountability, and more, the author describes how he's coached leaders to think through more personal questions designed to better understand their motives. Who are you able to become? There are things in your way. You can't transform a company without also changing yourself.
At the height of the Pandemic, Lucas B. was the CEO of a well-known company. Analysts wrote it off. Lucas had a plan to return the company to profitability, but he was struggling to implement it. Lucas thought he was up against a lot of obstacles. He was against the idea of his own leadership being a part of the problem.