Why Leaders Should Practice ‘Inside Out’ Leadership

We are all on a quest. The job role we fulfill or the products we sell are just the costumes and exterior wrapping. It turns out that the real destination of leadership journeys isn't the product we are selling—it is the finely tuned inner wisdom we achieve. And it’s usually pretty humbling. As T.S. Eliot wisely wrote in his poem Little Gidding, "We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time."

In the end, it's less about the product, service or experience that we developed and much more about what we learned in the process. And that is whether you are launching a project as a manager, completing a raise as an entrepreneur, standing up a division in a corporation or selling your startup.

In 2017, Beri Meric watched the company he had built double in size four years running—and then nearly collapse. He told me it felt like a near-death experience for the organization he had poured himself into. In the middle of that unraveling, his Young Presidents' Organization forum said something that he has never forgotten: He wasn't the small thing straining to carry a big, fragile company. He was the big thing. The company was something he had made and, therefore, could make again.

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