Your ego is not you. It’s a structure built of a lifetime of experience, disappointment and pain (and some good stuff too). Your true self is the consciousness that lies beneath the ego. It’s built out of love and purpose. But your ego doesn’t want you to know that. The trick of the ego is that it convinces you that it is you. Ego arises from our need for significance. Just as our need for certainty isn’t inherently bad, neither is our need for significance. Having a high nee

Most of the leadership mythology we subscribe to was created in the 20th century world of fossil fuels and mechanistic, production-oriented businesses. In the 21st century, that world is dying. We can see before us a new world, one of ideas, knowledge and innovation, but we’re not quite there yet. It’s still emerging. And as a result, we’re kind of in between things. Stepping into the new world is a slow process. And it’s messy. In the old era, leadership was about efficiency