Beyond Digital

 

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Disrupt Your Own Leadership Approach

To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.

—Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama

One of the things that struck us when we conducted the research for this book is how consistently the leaders we interviewed emphasized that they themselves had to transform at least as much as their companies did. Without disrupting their own leadership approach, they wouldn’t have been able to reimagine how their company creates value, to re-architect their organization and leadership team, or to engage their people in meaningful ways. In other words, without disrupting their own leadership approach, they would not have been able to transform ...