Dave Morris · The Impossible Curriculum

Self-Awareness Is Not Self-Improvement

A leader's patterns do not stay private; they become conditions other people have to work inside.

A leader’s patterns do not stay private; they become conditions other people have to work inside.

A leader can change the temperature of a room before they say anything.

The door opens.

The pace changes.

People sit up a little straighter. Someone shortens the sentence they were about to say. Someone else decides the question can wait. A third person starts translating the situation into whatever version is least likely to cause friction.

Nothing dramatic has happened.

No one has raised their voice.

No one has announced a new rule.