Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership

36. Obstacles

Concept

The third element in Newburg’s model of Resonance is encountering obstacles, attempting and failing. His conclusion was that most if not all high performers run into obstacles and that how they deal with those obstacles determines whether they will go on to higher performance or sink into a kind of mediocrity. The choice is between a mindset of obligation versus a mindset of revisiting one’s internal dream.

This choice is a big one. Most people it seems fall into what Newburg called a duty cycle or an obligation cycle. That is, they became cut off from their internal dream, they forgot what it was like, and began to focus on results instead of the feel that produces results and their performance eroded and their determination ...