Transformations and Powerful Leadership Experiences

I’ve been exploring the concept of “powerful leadership experiences“, and one key is to undergo numerous “passages” of adversity or diversity. I found a post on a similar topic on the blog Communication Nation, titled “When was your last transformation?, a very good question, transformation is described in the post as:

By transformation I mean one of the following:

• You started to see the world in a fundamentally different way.
• Something made you question your assumptions or belief system.
• You made a life-changing decision.
• You were converted to a new way of thinking or a new pattern of behavior.
• You changed your mind about something that you felt strongly about.

I think transformations are key to personal and leadership development. The problem I feel is that we need to have transformations more frequently. We get too easily stuck in our comfort zones when traps us into a routine and prevents growth and transformation. Perhaps we need to understand how frequently we have transformations by mapping our life onto a time line and indicate the transformations (as defined above) on the time line. Then step back and ask yourself, “Am I having major transformations at intervals of approximately 2 years?”, “Do I have 10 years of leadership experience or 1 year experience repeated 10 times?” Any thoughts?

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