Self-awareness is crucial for evolving and finding coping strategies for weaknesses. An excerpt from How To Become a Better Leader. Image: PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi.

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has said that she benefited from feedback from mentors.

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How can leaders recognize and manage their psychological preferences?

In a wide-ranging article for the Spring 2012 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review, authors Ginka Toegel, a professor of organizational behavior and leadership at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Jean-Louis Barsoux, a professor of organizational behavior and leadership at IMD, lay out findings from more than 2,000 in-depth conversations with international executives.

In this excerpt from How To Become a Better Leader, the authors examine the role of self-awareness, which they deem crucial for evolving and finding coping strategies for weaknesses:

A survey of 75 members of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council rated self-awareness as the most important capability for leaders to develop. Executives need to know where their natural inclinations lie in order to boost them or compensate for them. Self-awareness is about identifying personal idiosyncrasies the characteristics that executives take to be the norm but actually represent the exception.

Sometimes self-awareness comes early in ones career, prompted by a comment from a trusted colleague or boss. In an article in Fortune International, Lauren Zalaznick, now chairman, Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media for NBC-Universal, recalled that the best advice she ever received was from her first boss, who told her: Throughout your career, youre going to hear lots of feedback from show-makers and peers and employees and bosses. If you hear a certain piece of feedback consistently and you dont agree with it, it doesnt matter what you think. Truth is, youre being perceived that way.

On her rise to the top, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has also benefited from constructive feedback: Im a pretty honest and outspoken person, she told the Wall Street Journal Europe. So, you sit in a meeting and somebody presents a five-year plan. [Other executives] would say, You know, thats very interesting. But maybe you could think about this slightly differently. I just said, Thats crap. This is never going to happen. Im sure they were all thinking that, but they were saying it in a much more gentle way. Id come out of the meeting, and one of the guys would pull me aside and say, You could have said the thing slightly differently.

Over the past two decades, companies have increased the opportunities for executives to gain insight into their personalities and receive feedback from multiple sources. These instruments can even be distributed to friends and family, who may be only too pleased to enlighten their loved ones on how they come across. And self-awareness is one of the most frequently cited outcomes of leadership coaching.

But some executives resist this process for a long time. Take the case of David Pottruck, the former CEO of Charles Schwab. Earlier in his career, he was summoned to his bosss office and told that his colleagues did not trust him. As Pottruck recalled in the Harvard Business Review, That feedback was like a dagger to my heart. I was in denial, as I didnt see myself as others saw me. I had no idea how self-serving I looked to other people. Still, somewhere in my inner core the feedback resonated as true.

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Also I noticed as soon as Satchidanand emailed me, I got a down-pouring of light from above the crown which kept charging me up the rest of the day and my cravings died out! Then I realized the cravings were ego-blockages and that I did not want them.

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It's really bringing up little blockages which are complaining while being pushed down into the earth's core to get purified. The hot fire energy has gotten much stronger in my body while doing the practice, mostly the base of the spine heats up, but also the middle of the spine. There are lots of little blockages being noticed. But I'm pushing them out.

I think this is my new favorite meditation practice! It's far more powerful than the normal orbit practice.

Have practiced it some more my body gets very hot during the practice just like the video says.

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So now this meditation is definitely the most powerful one I have got. Very impressive. I do an in breath/out breath orbit and then hold for a moment at the earth-core. Then I bring up the energy again.

I've had another experience today, which is light surrounding a part of my selfish ego, and my ego submitted. The light has won for this issue. It is no longer possible to tolerate some of my selfish behaviours.Now I feel very peaceful.

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Thanks! I want to update you. I underwent a profound change in my energy last night after my main ego blockage submitted.

However today I noticed with more light in my system, that there are more, smaller ego blockages which are there and which talk to me. I look forward to resolving them. I'll now paste what I wrote last night.

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and will carry on chattering away to itself.

Youll still hear its complaints and criticisms

but they wont convince you anymore -

youll doubt them, laugh at them, reject them.

And gradually, without the fuel of your attention

the voice will become more hesitant

will stumble and slow down, leaving space;

until eventually, that self-assertive drawl that demanded to be heard

and seemed to submerge the rest of the reality

will be no louder than a whisper, like a gentle breeze

that seems to be part of silence.

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In the beginning stages Stages Course of disease progression defined by levels or periods of severity: early, mild, moderate, moderately severe, severe of Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease A neurological disease that affects memory and behaviour. It is characterized by beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. There is no known cause but genetics and lifestyle are thought to play a role. and dementia with Lewy bodies Lewy bodies Round clumps of protein found in the brain's neurons in many people who experience a neurodegenerative disorder., people have varying degrees of self-awareness. Some people are very aware of their limitations, making them feel sad for the way they are now and making them worried about the future. In general, as the disease progresses, the level of self-awareness will most likely decline. In the earlier stages of the disease, the person you care for may deny or not understand that they have the disease. This can result in them not realizing their own limitations in their abilities Abilities Level at which certain actions and activities can be carried out., such as driving. As well, the person you care for may believe that they are completing tasks which are now being done for them. For example, they may think they have made the bed when someone else has. As their self-awareness declines, so will their ability to express their thoughts and feelings accurately. This loss of self-awareness does not have to be a negative thing. If someone with Alzheimer's disease does not recognize their decline, it is possible that they could believe they were suffering less.

Related to insight, self awareness means you have the ability to "see" yourself as others see you. As insight is affected in people with Frontotemporal dementia Frontotemporal dementia A type of dementia that mainly affects the frontal lobe causing a problem in executive function tasks., so too is their ability to recognize their behaviours, deficits and illness. They no longer know what appropriate social behaviour is and often lose their inhibitions. In many ways, the "self" that they were has changed and they exhibit behaviour that would have been bizarre in their former concept of self. One disturbing behaviour for caregivers and families is a hypersexual behaviour. This can range from a preoccupation with sexual jokes to compulsive masturbation or sexual behaviour in public.

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Promoters of alternative investment and money-making opportunities sometimes make their deals seem like a sure thing. The truth is that the higher the potential reward, the higher the risk. Dont do business with someone who tries to convince you otherwise.

Dishonest promoters often are vague about the nature of the investment and focus instead on the money you'll make. To close the deal, they cite phony statistics, exaggerate the significance of a current event, claim they will guarantee the investment, or stress how unique their offer is. And they almost always try to rush you into a decision.

Investment decisions demand your time and careful consideration.

Using sales scripts, scam artists may create the impression that only a few shares or partnership units are left in a "sure-fire" investment. They try to convince you that youll miss out on a big opportunity if you dont send them thousands of dollars by overnight courier or money transfer. But if you do, you will lose your money. They insist on money transfers because it is nearly impossible to trace the money or get it back.

Its best to get an independent appraisal of the specific asset, business, or investment youre considering. An appraisal offered by the promoters could be fake. Talk to the previous owners of an asset or business for its history, but be aware that some dishonest promoters hire shills people who lie about their success with an investment to convince you to buy it. Discuss all investment ideas or plans with an accountant, an attorney, or another advisor you know and trust.

Scam artists lie. Their success depends on having an airtight answer for everything.

Dont let appearances fool you. For a few dollars, anyone can incorporate an entity. Scammers can produce slick promotional materials, or buy a toll-free number.

Sales representatives should tell you the risk of particular investments. Honest risk disclosures may say you could lose your whole investment. Be particularly suspicious of sales pitches that play down risk or portray written risk disclosures as routine formalities required by the government. Later, when you try to recover the money you lost, dishonest promoters could use those same risk disclosures against you.

Can you find published information about the company in which youre investing, or someone you trust who has heard of the company? Do an internet search with the name of the company and words like review, scam, or complaint. Look through several pages of search results.

Its wise to check with law enforcement agencies in the community where the promoters are located, but keep in mind that it may be too soon for the companys victims to realize theyve been defrauded or to have filed complaints. Dishonest promoters often operate a particular scam for a short time and close down before they can be detected. Often, they reopen under another name, selling another investment scam. In addition, they may lie about their name or their business history, or even pay people to be "references."

Scam artists often use news stories about the success of legitimate companies as bait by claiming that their "opportunity" is similar to that of a "hot" money-maker. Unfortunately, success stories of other companies in the field are irrelevant for your purposes. Get the track record of the company youre considering investing in and the background of the people promoting it.

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Eventually, we will be able to stay happy all the time, even in the most difficult circumstances.

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness; but if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. If we train in meditation, our mind will gradually become more and more peaceful, and we will experience a purer and purer form of happiness. Eventually, we will be able to stay happy all the time, even in the most difficult circumstances.

Usually we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind blown here and there by external circumstances. If things go well, our mind is happy, but if they go badly, it immediately becomes unhappy. For example, if we get what we want, such as a new possession or a new partner, we become excited and cling to them tightly. However, since we cannot have everything we want, and since we will inevitably be separated from the friends and possessions we currently enjoy, this mental stickiness, or attachment, serves only to cause us pain. On the other hand, if we do not get what we want, or if we lose something that we like, we become despondent or irritated. For example, if we are forced to work with a colleague whom we dislike, we will probably become irritated and feel aggrieved, with the result that we will be unable to work with him or her efficiently and our time at work will become stressful and unrewarding.

By training in meditation, we create an inner space and clarity that enables us to control our mind

Such fluctuations of mood arise because we are too closely involved in the external situation. We are like a child making a sandcastle who is excited when it is first made, but who becomes upset when it is destroyed by the incoming tide. By training in meditation, we create an inner space and clarity that enables us to control our mind regardless of the external circumstances. Gradually we develop mental equilibrium, a balanced mind that is happy all the time, rather than an unbalanced mind that oscillates between the extremes of excitement and despondency.

If we train in meditation systematically, eventually we will be able to eradicate from our mind the delusions that are the causes of all our problems and suffering. In this way, we will come to experience a permanent inner peace, known as liberation or nirvana. Then, day and night in life after life, we will experience only peace and happiness.

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