Leadership Quote

Leadership Quote / December 2001

“Unless we respect the reality of the inner world, commensurate in importance with that of the external world, we are not equipped to understand the full meaning of leadership nor are we able to improve it dramatically, radically. Seeing only half of reality makes us only half a leader. Acknowledging only fifty percent of what is true, gives us a maximum of fifty percent effectiveness as a leader.
“The answers to leadership questions are in the inner world. But they are needed in the outer world. Leaders therefore understand both worlds. And they know how to bring what is in the inner world into the outer world. We call that ‘crossing the line,’ for leaders exist at this point of intersection. It is what gives leadership thinking its unique edge.” ~Peter Koestenbaum, Your Heroic Journey (to be published)