Leadership from the Inside Out, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER SIX

RESILIENCE MASTERY

Leading with Energy

While researching and writing this book, we interviewed more than 100 CEOs. The purpose of these meetings was to solicit their views on leadership and to have them challenge our viewpoints. Additionally, we conducted a survey to discover which areas of mastery leaders perceived as most relevant and which areas they viewed as the most challenging. The results of our interviews were very clear-cut: 74 percent of the CEOs saw Personal Mastery as the most relevant to their leadership effectiveness, while 67 percent saw Interpersonal Mastery as the second most relevant. However, 92 percent of them selected Resilience Mastery as the most challenging personally.

For most leaders I meet, balancing work ...