Most leadership development misses something.

Not because it lacks care or intelligence, but because it's working from the very place that created what it's trying to fix.

While editing the See Different Manifesto this past week, something came into focus. Not about leadership. About where we're seeing from.

We think we are the voice in our head. The one narrating. Judging. Planning the next three moves.

But that voice can't rest. And it can't give us what it's constantly trying to solve.

Disengagement, stress, burnout—these aren't problems to fix in the organization. They're signals pointing to where we're operating from.

At some point, something quieter becomes noticeable.

We're not the voice. We're what notices it.

When that recognition happens, many of the problems we've been wrestling with start to feel less solid. Because they were never "out there" in the first place.

What if the work isn't to think better, but to see from somewhere else entirely?

Most leadership development adds more thinking. The shift is simpler.

Awareness comes forward. Things look different. And what needs to happen next tends to show up without force.

The question stops being "What skills do I need?" and becomes "What's already clear when I'm not in the way?"

From there, it unfolds through us.

— Bill

P. S. If this recognition is already happening for you, or you sense it's ready to, I'm hosting a six-week Odyssey workshop starting on February 5th.

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Bill Fox helps leaders shift from conditioned mind to awareness itself. Author of The See Different Manifesto and The Perception Miracle. Learn more at billfox.co