Have you ever you come across a book that provides just the spiritual nourishment you were craving at the moment you needed it? To me, this is that book. I cannot express my gratitude to him to have written it. Jerry is an old friend and former colleague so I have a little personal experience with the magical insight he brings to his work as well as the forces that plagued him at the peak of his career in finance. He was always more honest about this than anyone I’ve ever met. And one of his gifts is recognizing these conflicts in other leaders, and showing them, through gentle but firm inquiry, how their patterns may be replaying in their leadership relationships, and what work it takes to resolve them with honesty and integrity. In this hugely readable book, he opens up even more to show the incredible path he’s been on to reconcile his childhood demons and through reading, retreats, therapy, and writing, find ways to break open his heart and become a warrior of radical self-inquiry. I’ve spent the last few years on my own self-inquiry journey, wrestling with similar issues and lightly dipping into some of the touchstones he discovered, along with a few others (Salzburg, Rohr, Katie). I felt like this book, more than any I’ve read lately, helped bring various strands of the inquiry together into sharp focus. He includes questions at the end of each chapter, and I started journaling with them after the first 10 pages. I’ve also worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, and agree with Jerry that people in that role often discover patterns that once drove them and helped them succeed may not work forever. This book helps you see those patterns in others, and then in yourself, through easy to understand analogies-the Crow, the Lone Warrior, and others.
Jerry is a master coach and teacher, and you can literally use this book to benefit from his coaching, to explore what is holding you back, and to start to disentangle what it means for you to be a better leader, and more importantly, a better human. Or you can just enjoy the ride of wonderful writing and insight that knit together the personal with the pressures of modern entrepreneurial leadership. Either way, this book is a gem.
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Strong Back, Open Heart
Most leadership books are written to build you up, boost your confidence and tell you that ultimately, you're the master of the Universe. Just follow these 7 easy steps, change your habits in four days, take my exclusive personality test... Authors of such things promise a quick path to riches and success. Be damned those who stand in your way. Jerry Colonna is not one of these authors. His book, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up, is an invitation. It's an invitation to discover yourself by entering into the deep exploration of what Jerry calls "radical self-inquiry." This invitation asks the reader to simply discover who they are as a person, and who they are as a leader, by going through the heart opening process of peeling back the layers and masks we've accumulated over the years to protect ourselves from pain and suffering. What's this have to do with leadership? Jerry has found by working with dozens and dozens of clients in his coaching practice (some of which are the world's leading CEOs), and more importantly, examining his own life, that the way we as leaders react to situations are often shaped by our need to protect ourselves. We still lean on things that kept us safe in childhood, and in ways we're blind to, they continue to creep into our decision making even now. He calls this the "long black bag" we drag behind us as we navigate our way through life. He invites us to shed all of that and become the adult, the leader, we are all capable of becoming. His contention is this: great human beings make great leaders. This book is for those who seek to become great human beings. Kind, authentic, awakened. Perfect in our imperfections. In doing so, you will naturally become a great leader. You will become, as Jerry puts it, a "broken-open-hearted warrior."
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Jose
Excelente libro para analisis personal e introspección
Reviewed in Spain on November 2, 2019Passionate reader
Excellant resouces for personal development!
Reviewed in Germany on August 1, 2019