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Jerry Colonna

Co-founder & CEO

Reboot

🚀 Career & Leadership (1)👥 Team & Culture (2)

Key Takeaways

  • 1.The 'Complicity Question' helps leaders regain agency by identifying how they contribute to problems they complain about.
  • 2.True leadership resilience requires a combination of practical skills, self-inquiry, and shared experiences.
  • 3.Busyness is often a trauma response or a way to quiet the inner imposter syndrome voice.
  • 4.Team dysfunction is often a fractal of the leader's own unresolved psychological baggage.
  • 5.Success and money do not solve internal feelings of insecurity; only decoupling self-worth from outcome does.

Methodologies(3)

🚀 Career & Leadership

A psychological tool to shift from blame to agency. By asking how one is complicit (like an accomplice, not necessarily responsible/guilty) in creating unwanted conditions, leaders uncover the hidden benefits or 'delusions' driving their behaviors.

Core Principles

  • 1.Ask the core question: 'How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don't want?'
  • 2.Distinguish 'Complicity' from 'Responsibility': You are the getaway driver, not necessarily the bank robber.
  • 3.Identify the 'Hidden Benefit': What psychological need is being met by this bad situation? (e.g., being busy = feeling important/safe).
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"The purpose of this question is actually to evoke your own agency. A perfect example of that would be, I say I don't want to feel busy all the time, but the truth of the matter is I feel really unnerved... if my agenda isn't jam-packed."

#complicity#inquiry#career
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👥 Team & Culture

A holistic formula defining sustainable leadership. It argues that practical skills must be combined with internal psychological work and community support to achieve not just better performance, but personal resilience.

Core Principles

  • 1.Variable 1: Practical Skills (The 'How' - Strategy, Product, Finance).
  • 2.Variable 2: Radical Self-Inquiry (The 'Why' - Unpacking motivations, fears, and history).
  • 3.Variable 3: Shared Experiences (The 'Who' - Vulnerable peer support/Circles to combat isolation).
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"I get you want to be a great CEO... but what I really care about is you not killing yourself in the process."

#reboot#leadership#equation
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👥 Team & Culture

A set of four diagnostic questions designed to pierce through the 'bullshit' of corporate politeness and uncover the root causes of misalignment or resentment.

Core Principles

  • 1.Q1: What am I not saying that I need to say? (Identifying withheld truth/conflict avoidance).
  • 2.Q2: What am I saying that's not being heard? (Identifying communication gaps/ineffectiveness).
  • 3.Q3: What is being said that I'm not hearing? (Identifying listening filters/confirmation bias).
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"You know you're in the radical self-inquiry zone when the questions take your breath away."

#communication#alignment#matrix
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