Book Excerpt: Step Up by Sailaja Manacha
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Title: Step Up: Women’s Journey to Identity, Success and Power
Author: Sailaja Manacha
Publisher: SAGE India (SAGE Response), 2019
Links: Sage
Our humaneness is the sensitive side of business and often the hidden side too.
We forget about what is happening inside ourselves—our bodies and our minds. We forget that we have to understand ourselves, look within, so that we can begin to change in order to lead ourselves.
Paying attention to our way of ‘being’ allows us to better understand our external behaviours and inner drives. Way of ‘being’ can be understood as our ‘inner self’ and this shapes our ‘outer self’ or our behaviours.
Our Personal History Shapes Us
What is the meaning of this experience for this leader I shared about? Every time he stood in front of a large group, suddenly his personal history appeared along with the memory of feeling stuck and frozen on stage. It was all happening unconsciously. It showed up in ways that choked him, blocked him and he would lose his voice each time. In that moment he would forget the successful leader that he is because he was in a different place and time, inside himself.
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