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Name Who You Want to Be

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

—Aristotle

Who you are is key to what you can do. To lead in real time, you need to be as mindfully alert with your personal growth goals as you are with your external business challenges. You are already successful, but as your role expands, who you were before may not be enough now. The survey of one thousand CEOs that we mentioned in the introduction clearly shows that personal transformation is key to organizational transformation.1

In this chapter we help you create a map of your inner landscape to increase awareness of the types of personal development goals you might choose. We will help you understand who you are now, who you want to be, and how to learn the ...

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