Ego

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Nand Kishore Chaudhary from Jaipur Rugs on love, collective consciousness and self-management

...rofessionals but all that put me upside down. I learned that knowledge is power. But too much knowledge and knowledge gained without practice doubles ego. Practitioners sometime get their skills without having the knowledge to break the ego of our professionals. I started a learning initiative, which w...more
...o much knowledge and knowledge gained without practice doubles ego. Practitioners sometime get their skills without having the knowledge to break the ego of our professionals. I started a learning initiative, which we named Higher School of Unlearning. We made the professionals work with our older, une...more
...ur journey been like? NK Chaudhary: I'm driven by the three things. The first is unconsciousness. And the second is the desires. And the third is the ego. And I also found that it is impacting my decisions. And I also found that I'm driven by habits. And then I started working on my own consciousness. ...more
...that I want to be doing? And just continuing to practice until as you say, you develop those new muscles like listening, like being able to let go of ego. NK Chaudhary: Because what I found, Lisa, is that the iceberg is the biggest problem, because what we see, what we hear, what we listen to, is only ...more

Frederic Laloux with an invitation to reclaim integrity and aliveness

...hing up with your sister, or your brother in law, or maybe some of them have enough money anyway. And what we realised is that all of the fears were ego fears. It was that they would be seen as a failure in their circles of CEOs, they wouldn’t be invited to whatever CEO retreats and think tanks… but t...more
...es of CEOs, they wouldn’t be invited to whatever CEO retreats and think tanks… but there was no real danger to their lives in any way. It was just an ego fear, but it’s a real fear. And I wanted to honour that. And what we realised is if I don’t have a plan B, I am, by definition, powerless. By definit...more

Bernadette Wesley on bridging inner and outer transformation

... joked around and said we've got to stop calling it dev pods because it sounds like death pods. But this is kind of a death. This is the death of the ego. But let's not go there! So peer learning spaces is an easier way to take it in. It's where we learn together. So it's a place within the organizati...more

Michael Y. Lee on lessons from researching self-managing organisations

...ent require levels of psychological development. I like to call it 'the higher game': the ability to lead without control, the maturity to have lower ego and have a certain level of humility, the ability to exercise authority and responsibility - these are all, I think, characteristics of a certain lev...more

Beetroot’s founders on purpose, self-management, and shocking people with trust

...e able to work in a self-managed environment, that requires a lot of maturity, awareness, business understanding and also this about tuning down your ego, seeing the big picture - all these things, that really, really requires a lot from each individual - they come with experience, and age and so on. S...more

Alanna Irving on leadership, decisions and money in bossless organisations

...it's never easy. Walking those roads is never straight, it's never easy. So I'm constantly tripping up on my own internal, 'oh, actually that was my ego coming out again', and like, 'oh, actually, I'm afraid to take responsibility for myself' or 'I actually did want to talk and tell person what to do'...more

Aaron Dignan on being complexity conscious and people positive

...hing that helps us kind of keep our heads down. We're just pushing through to the next thing. Another part of this, of course, is that there's a big ego component to this and leaders and founders and managers have a lot of their identity wrapped up in being the hero or being the micromanager being the...more

Gary Hamel on busting bureaucracy for good

... chance. Your career is often largely controlled by one boss- so it's very easy to shade the truth or to swallow an objection and play to your boss's ego and their prejudices. And so in many ways we behave at work in ways that we would never behave with friends or with family, but we find ourselves in ...more