If leadership advice is so effective, why do we keep recycling the same topics decade after decade?
I see the same shallow leadership advice repeated endlessly on LinkedIn.
Harvard Business Review regularly publishes articles on trust, leadership, engagement, psychological safety and burnout that were initially published a decade or more ago.
If it was great advice back then, why are we still talking about it?
Why are organizations still struggling with the same fundamental challenges?
There was a time in my life when I devoured 60 to 100 management and leadership books each year. I was convinced that the next book would unlock the secret.
Now, from the perspective of my inner leadership journey, I’ve come to a startling realization:
Every piece of leadership advice is someone’s survival story dressed up as universal truth.
Each author offers us their version of reality, filtered through their ego, beliefs, and unconscious patterns. Good, bad, right or wrong.
We’re not learning leadership principles. We’re absorbing someone else’s coping mechanisms!
And the cost of this collective delusion is staggering. Billions are spent on leadership development with minimal lasting change.
Leaders who collect certificates and frameworks but still feel lost when facing real complexity.
The real breakthrough isn’t finding the right book, framework, or model. It’s recognizing that you’ve been looking in the wrong place entirely.
On the inner leadership journey, we discover that true leadership emerges from conscious awareness, not from learning more.
The wisdom and leadership you are looking for is already within you.
The inner path is the way forward in the 21st century.
The leadership you’re seeking isn’t in the next book. It’s in the awareness reading these words right now.
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