syndrome of inauthenticity

Today I bring you American Carol Adrienne's contribution which, in his book When Life Changes or You Wish It Would: How to Survive and Thrive in Uncertain Times, 2002, makes us reflect on the syndrome of inauthenticity in our life, in general, and also in the lead. Below is a list of some of the feelings that make up the inauthenticity syndrome — which occurs when our needs, our values and our self-image does not correspond to our outer expression, our behaviour and our achievements — and some important features of an authentic person.

Enough is enough

We are in time to say enough. Leaders who try to influence us no longer can. Its authenticity is weak and does not augur luck. After so much time to learn, these leaders, that only make us feel orphaned, still hooked to power for power. There is no pint of view towards the lives of followers. Decisions are pure exercise of individual strategies and maintenance of prerogatives. Well. Mental inertia and, above all, spiritual already tire being so out of time, that's right, rotten as the hot bread twenty-four hours after being comes. We have to change your mind and short-term leadership. The whole future is linked to the strategic vision of long term, and gains dimension with authentic leaders that have references to values that influence the will of followers. The future is the "back to roots", back to the purity of human nature. We don’t survive alone, only well monitored.

A different kind of vision

Vision is the glue of times. Blue Ocean goals differentiate main stream companies, grounded on market old ideas and efficiency, from the future orientated ones, answering to market trust and people hope. We must be humble; we have no longer the most intelligent, the most charismatic, and the most brilliant leaders. Top-down decisions are past orientated and nowadays, especially in Europe, give us no trust, no hope, and probably no future. We are all together, so we have to listen stakeholders, propose alternatives, negotiate respecting differences and, being authentic, act, act, and act. When you believe you are the ideas guardian you go wrong. Listen to the nature, listen to the biodiversity and make your choice: be human.

A bold mindset

When we deserve to do things well and almost everything goes wrong, we must stop and think carefully. When we do what we have to do according to our mind set and almost everything goes wrong, we must stop and verify the rationale of our mindset. Facing reality if we neither don’t stop and think nor verify the mindset, we are completely out of our minds. That’s what is going on. Power people have a bold mindset and they don’t give it up. Or that is a hided agenda?