CHAPTER 2

Self-Awareness: Understanding of the Inner Self

First Step: Self-Awareness

Self-leadership starts with self-awareness. Leadership starts with us and requires both self-awareness and the decision to improve our own leadership capital. This is what is called in academic jargon authentic leadership. Workshops and training, which are developed based on authentic leadership, would always emphasize the development of our true self, rather than an ideal substitution.

The key assumption behind is that every person is valuable and unique and, therefore, he or she has something to offer to the world. The development challenge is focused on developing our own personality and becoming the one we are called to be. This is the idea behind these words ...

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