Today we welcome Hitendra Wadhwa, Professor of Practice at Columbia Business School where he teaches Columbia’s most popular leadership course, the award-winning “Personal Leadership & Success.” Hitendra is also the founder of Mentora Institute, which is at the forefront of creating a new model of leadership that is agile, authentic, and attainable. Hitendra’s research and teaching on personal leadership have been covered by Forbes, Fortune, CNN, Psychology Today, Wall Street Journal and others. He is the author of Inner Mastery, Outer Impact.
In this episode, I talk to Hitendra Wadhwa about personal development. Growth is often associated with the mastery of skills. But Hitendra reminds us that inner work is also growth. The internal battles we face lead us to become more attuned to our most authentic selves. In order to unlock our full potential, Hitendra shares with us Five Core Energies and how to activate them. We also touch on the topics of leadership, service, purpose, and transcendence.
Website: www.hitendra.com
Twitter: @HitendraWadhwa
Topics
02:31 Hitendra’s background and upbringing
06:16 Personal leadership
09:23 Public leadership
13:44 Ashoka the Great
18:01 Dominion over yourself
21:30 Authenticity and our real selves
27:05 Core Energy: Purpose
29:33 Core Energy: Wisdom
30:48 Core Energy: Growth
32:04 Core Energy: Love
33:33 Core Energy: Self-Realization
37:34 Conceptualizing the Five Core Energies
39:50 Living vs leading
43:41 The mystic in all of us
48:22 From inner dominance to inner surrender
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