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Define Your Personal Leadership Identity

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and it will be lost.

—MARTHA GRAHAM, American dancer and choreographer

Gael, a student from one of my workshops, recently came to me with a dilemma. He was just starting a new role at work, and, for the first time ever, he found himself managing a team of eight people. He was beyond excited for the growth opportunities that this new role offered, but he was also struggling to keep his team focused and productive. Since he’d assumed his new role, they ...

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