How a leader relates to their interior self is the alchemy for how they will relate to everyone else.
We are all on a quest. The job role we fulfill or the products we sell are just the costumes and exterior wrapping. It turns out that the real destination of leadership journeys isn’t the product we are selling—it’s the finely tuned inner wisdom we achieve. And it’s usually pretty humbling. As T.S. Eliot wisely wrote in his poem Little Gidding, “We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time.”
How a leader relates to their interior self is the alchemy for how they will relate to everyone else.
We are all on a quest. The job role we fulfill or the products we sell are just the costumes and exterior wrapping. It turns out that the real destination of leadership journeys isn’t the product we are selling—it’s the finely tuned inner wisdom we achieve. And it’s usually pretty humbling. As T.S. Eliot wisely wrote in his poem Little Gidding, “We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time.” Leadership
