Reboot Podcast Episode #107 – Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up – with Jerry Colonna

“I’ve come to see my mourning journal time and my morning meditation time as one big, two-hour window of mindfulness.” – Jerry Colonna

“Puzzling and working with the text is another form of radical self-inquiry.” – Jerry Colonna

“I think we’re socialized to somehow associate inquiring within with a kind of narcissism.” – Jerry Colonna

“If we allow ourselves the radical act of attending to ourselves for periods of the day, it enables us to then turn around and be much more present for the other person because we’ve paid attention to ourselves. Now we get to give that attention to something else.” – Jerry Colonna

“What benefits might have been derived from helping to be complicit and creating the conditions I say I don’t want?” – Jerry Colonna

“If you know your heart, then you’ll know your way to the ‘how’.” – Jerry Colonna

“The truest self is the self that contains all of the self. “ – Jerry Colonna

“When you lead from that whole self, you may not have the answers to the ‘how,’ but you can always pull together people to, in, in a joint capacity to answer the why’s.” – Jerry Colonna

“What do I believe to be true about the world? What kind of company do I want to work for?” – Jerry Colonna

“There is an opportunity to think of leadership as a practice.” – Jerry Colonna

“I thought of the books that I’ve read in my life as pebbles on the path in the forest when I was lost. And I feel like I just put a pebble down on the path.” – Jerry Colonna