Ashish KothariMake flourishing your competitive edge

Is your leadership failing because you’re neglecting yourself?

13 Mar 2026 · 0 min

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In this interview excerpt, Ashish Kothari and Speaker B discuss a common misunderstanding among leaders: the belief that organizational flourishing can be achieved through external programs alone, without attending to their own personal state of being. Speaker B emphasizes that a leader’s well‑being directly influences the health of the organization, and that true flourishing requires leaders to first care for themselves. Ashish prompts Speaker B to recall the pivotal moment in his own journey when he realized he had hit his personal limits and needed to change his approach in order to break through and flourish.

Look at the state of work today.
What do you think most leaders are still misunderstanding about flourishing? I think the first thing that comes to my mind is how much their own personal state of being affects their organization. Not another program and initiative that someone else can do, but leaders have to take care of themselves in order to take care of their organizations.
So what was that point in your own journey when you realized that the way you were operating the life that you were leading, you had hit the limit. And for you to break through, you needed to, to flourish yourself.
I stumbled upon it in a way by accident. I didn't know what I didn't know, and I didn't know that things could be better or that things were actually even that bad.