Most people are walking around on the planet pretty unconscious. That's not a bad thing or a wrong thing, it's actually kind of a natural normal state. The process to work is to bring some self awareness to that and ask yourself: am i conscious or unconscious right now? Some unconscious leaders do meaningful and powerful things in the world. We don't think it's really sustainable. But for short bursts, which can include years, you can hit your numbers,. You can outdo the competition. You can have meaningful impact.
Ready for a wake-up call? Today’s episode of Brave New Work is all about conscious leadership—a way of showing up that asks us to be responsive rather than reactive, present rather than lodged in the past or the future, feeling-full rather than feeling-empty, and radically responsible rather than carelessly unaccountable. Sound hard? Exhausting? Wildly uncomfortable? It is.
That’s why Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans called in Jim Dethmer, founding partner of the Conscious Leadership Group and co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership. They talk to Jim about why doing this self-work is so important, why transformational leadership depends on it, and how entire teams and organizations can become more self-aware.
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