The Broken CEO

You can change your perspective, cultivate self-awareness and feel whole again. 

Senior executives can experience difficult, even painful, professional upheavals that can leave them feeling undone, but your work life doesn’t have to be that way.  

If you manage yourself and your feelings well, being a CEO, senior executive or team leader can be an exuberant experience. This kind of self-management doesn’t require a radical reconstruction of your psyche, but you must take the necessary steps to get in touch with “your inner dynamics” or how you think and feel.

Try to identify and change any negative aspects of your personality that are amenable to change, while recognizing that some negative aspects may not be harder to alter. Accept that you can fix some parts of yourself, but not everything. Then, work on what you can modify. 

Think of your interior transformation as “self leadership.”

A dramatic mental transformation involves asking yourself some pivotal questions. When you begin to query yourself, you won’t know all the answers. Admitting you don’t ...