Joe Fier describes a leadership program that forced him to ask who he was and what he valued. Over six months, he rewrote his company's values, quit activities that didn't fit, and reallocated his time as both a leader and parent.
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Like, was there a tipping point? Was that I thought we were going to learn how to be better leaders, like tools and tricks. And it was like, the first two days were a big mirror, which were like, who are you? What do you want? What do you value? Figure that out first, and then we can talk about what kind of leader you are going to be. And so it was the six months after that that I figured out my values. The practical implication of that was I went and changed my company's values. I said, I'm going to double down on these things. I made a list of things I'm going to quit, because it was really clear. So for me, it was like, that was sort of the pivotal moment of figuring out how to reallocate my time, even as a parent.