Quiet Leadership

APPLYING THE SIX STEPS TO A WHOLE ORGANIZATION

If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. Just do it one step at a time.

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN (2000)

There’s another whole book I’d like to write about applying the principles of Quiet Leadership to a whole organization, looking at how to transform leaders at every level. At this stage of this book I’d just like to introduce some high-level ideas.

First, I believe that organizations can change. However, just like an individual, and like the brain itself, an organization can only be changed from the inside out. It won’t change because people tell it to—it needs to have wide-scale insights by itself, and through this process, make deep new connections. ...