CHAPTER 7Expanding Your Personal Boundaries
To be a global change agent and provide leadership for a fractured world, you must expand your own boundaries of self-understanding and capacity for intervention. Without self-development, you will find it difficult to cross boundaries and operate in complex, uncertain environments, and your behavior might exacerbate the fractures that already exist.
Consider the case of sixty-three-year-old Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of the Ukraine. He was a bright, capable politician with more than twenty-five years of political experience, yet he made some dreadful choices that led to hundreds of people getting killed and him fleeing office in February 2014.1 He acted in ways that further fragmented ...
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