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Recently we coached the CEO of a highly successful Fortune 200 company. He’s being lauded as a bright new star on the leadership front. Yet he confided in us that his autopilot reactivity shows up when he goes to a bar, has several drinks, and starts chasing women. This unconscious leader has been stuck in the same pattern since college.

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp

He loved the way Plutarch assembled his work by stuffing in fistfuls of images, conversations, people, animals, and objects of all kinds, rather than by coldly arranging abstractions and arguments. His writing is full of things, Montaigne pointed out. If Plutarch wants to tell us that the trick in living well is to make the best of any situation, he does it by telling the story of a man who threw a stone at his dog, missed, hit his stepmother instead, and exclaimed, “Not so bad after all!”

How to Live

Sarah Bakewell

Self-belief is immensely powerful. The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion. Cultivate this early. As you get more data points that your judgment is good and you can consistently deliver results, trust yourself more.

How to Be Successful

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