CHAPTER 1

Get Real

A Lot Is Going Wrong Right Now

(and we have an opportunity to really make it right…)

Get real*

“Get real!” he said to me,

years ago, when I suggested that

something could be different,

ideal, aspirational vibe, and

stuck behind the old paradigm,

peeking out from the corners,

fearful of loss, of lack, of

stepping out tall poppy to be

struck down by the cruelty of

the world we’ve allowed them to build

on our backs, he said,

“Get real!”

and I thought,

“I will, but not the way you think.”

May I speak plainly?

Our leadership model is broken. You know it, I know it, we all know it. It’s so broken that we have to break ourselves to keep it going, to fit. How many times have you heard someone say they were burned out, exhausted, or ...

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