Reignite Your Inner Drive with Sharath Jeevan

The Evolving Leader

What happens when everything changes, when your core assumptions about your life and work seem no longer to hold true? A key responsibility of the leader is to be honest with themselves and others about anticipating, accepting and preparing for new realities while acknowledging that human beings often resist reality in ingenious and self deceiving ways.

In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Sharath Jeevan O.B.E. about his work helping leaders confront inflection moments where the external environment poses a significant threat or opportunity to an organisation’s business model. Sharath has also written two books “Inflection: A Roadmap for Leaders at a Crossroads” (2024) and “Intrinsic: A Manifesto to Reignite our Inner Drive” (2021) and teaches leadership at both Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)
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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Check-in (00:04:57)

3. Tell us about your career and what is the propelling energy of your work today? (00:06:21)

4. What are the biggest challenges that leaders are facing right now? (00:11:58)

5. What accounts for the lack of courage? (00:13:50)

6. An inflection point is when the environment poses a significant threat or opportunity to an organisation’s business model’, and you talk about the need to simultaneously consider that challenge from different time horizons. (00:15:11)

7. So you’re saying that there is tension between inflection moments and a proclivity towards status quo. How do you help leaders break through that? (00:17:52)

8. How do you help groups who aren’t looking to the future start to believe that this is a capability that they need to build? (00:20:45)

9. Given that your focus is on inflection moments, how do you see the conversation around AI and automation changing the climate around that conversation? (00:23:47)

10. Can you give us a sense of how the intergenerational shifts that are taking place will affect the workforce in the coming years? (00:26:21)

11. Many millennials are saying ‘I want a career that is driven by purpose’, and at the same time they have so much choice. As a result they are deferring ‘getting on with life’. What do you think about this millennial crisis around purpose? (00:28:55)

12. You focus on intrinsic motivation. How do you help people operationalise that amidst the uncertainty that they’re experiencing? (00:34:23)

13. What advice would you have for those listening who are part of an aspiring team who are just getting going and want to be successful? (00:39:41)

14. The both/and thinking around the ability to hold the tension between strong conviction and willingness to remain open to ‘a better way’ is incredibly difficult for a lot of people. How do you help people to do that? (00:42:27)

15. If you were starting again as an 18 year old, what might you do differently, what path might you have found yourself on? (00:44:51)

16. an you tell us about the new book? (00:46:24)