Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

by Jerry Colonna

The goal, then, is to help you listen to the stories of your heart so that, in the end, you can know the why of your leadership journey and become the adult, the full human you were meant to be. Then the simple but hard task becomes clear: Lead from the place of your truest self. Do so not merely for yourself but for those who love and entrust their careers to you.

On the one hand, those voices know that, often, we haven’t a clue as to how to proceed. In that knowledge, we live with the fear of being unmasked as an impostor. But, on the other hand, the shame of our not knowing leads us to believe that everyone else does know; everyone else has it all figured out. Then we do something particularly clever: we turn our shameful fear into further evidence of our failings as leaders, as adults, as humans. So, we spin, we bullshit, and play along in the shell game in which the bean of truth keeps disappearing under swiftly shifting shells.