3Turn Your Energy intoAdaptive Energy

It’s the chance of a lifetimeIn a lifetime of chanceAnd it’s high time you joinedIn the dance

—Dan Fogelberg, “Run for the Roses”

THE STORIES OF BILL GATES, STEVE JOBS, ANNE MULCAHY, RITA Marshall, and Kate Herzog have illustrated the key foundational concepts of leadership struggle: defining elements, scripts, adaptive energy, and the reflective and automatic minds. It is now time to put these concepts to work by intentionally building your capacity for adaptive action. The grounding practices in part I form the bedrock for regaining balance, getting your perspective in sync with the reality of what you are facing, and becoming more emotionally and spiritually centered.

The first grounding practice, which ...

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