Having been featured numerous times in Fast Company, Dick is now a regular columnist for that publication. As his ideas are taking hold with a number of other management thinkers, we thought it time to proffer five key questions about Leider's views of individuals and the careers they will strive for in the 21st Century. We will have to learn to develop ourselves. It's not an option. Essence is your basic underlying substance.
Character derails more leaders than intelligence and knowhow.
The development of essence is not to be confused with self-improvement seminars or personality development. Bringing out our essence is opposite from our common sense that tells us that by reading a book or going to a seminar, we will suddenly have the capacity to perform differently. They develop when people are prepared for opportunity because they know themselves. The search for meaning is a natural motivating force for human beings. Today, millions of people are re-examining what they're doing.