Name: Five key energies to help you lead from your inner core
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Description: During unprecedented times, leaders are expected to find a new and better way of operating into the future. Could a toolkit of five key energies help you to better serve your team and organization? Hitendra Wadhwa, founder and CEO of Mentora, presents five key energies leaders should activate to lead from their inner core.

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We are living in one of the most
transformative times in our lives.

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The global coronavirus pandemic has
forced business models and teams to

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change and adapt faster than ever.

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In these unprecedented times, we
look to our leaders to help bring

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out the best in ourselves, our
businesses, and bring a new and better

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way of operating into the future.

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CEO of Mentora, Hitendra Wadhwa, offers
leaders a slice of his leadership

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toolkit by identifying the five key
energies leaders should activate to

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help them lead from their inner core.

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This leadership model allows leaders
to be guided by not only authenticity

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and agility, but the ability to
find the right solutions that better

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serve their teams, problem solve and
communicate effectively for the overall

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benefit of the team and organization.

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Let's turn to one of the
revolutionary models of the 20th

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century, Einstein's view that matter
is nothing but condense energy.

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Well, maybe leadership is also
a form of condensed energy.

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In my work, in the work we're doing
with organizations such as Accenture

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and Erickson and Kraft-Heinz and
others, as well as with my MBA and

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executive MBA students at Columbia.

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Being involved in five
energy model for leadership.

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And I want to introduce those
five energies to you now.

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The first of those energies is purpose.

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Purpose is about recognizing
that the outer game always

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needs to be very fluid.

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But the inner game can be very
anchored in our values, in our purpose.

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And we constantly reaffirm those.

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And then we re-express those on the
outside, depending on what's needed.

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If the conditions change,
if our resources increase

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we will scale up our goals.

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If the resources decrease or if
we fail at a certain project, we

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will take it in a new direction.

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But always, always using those outer
goals as markers, as milestones

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in the path to pursuing our values
and our purpose, we can apply

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that discipline to our own selves.

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We can apply that to our teams
and to our organizations.

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And there are certain practices that
we teach, for example, how to do

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that mapping so that the authentic
journey and spark that each individual

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is yearning to go on based on their
level of experiences, their highs

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and lows that they want to end
up over the course of the life to

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create a meaningful life, how to
connect that with the collective

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quest of a team and an organization.

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The second of these five energies
is what I call wisdom and wisdom

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is about recognizing that in our
service of a purpose, we always

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do ourselves and to others.

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That we pursue truth.

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We seek to open ourselves up, our
hearts and minds to insights and

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knowledge and understanding in
whichever form it knocks on our door.

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And sometimes you and I, we get
so agitated and so attached.

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So let's say upset, what have you,
that our lens gets distorted and we

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are not able to think or see things
in that kind of like perfect clear

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mental lens, like Abraham Lincoln did.

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And so this wisdom energy is about
training people to be emotionally

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aware and to carry that energy of
their emotions and thoughts in a

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direction that is in service of truth
and in service of their purpose.

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Learn to create a space where we can
have uncomfortable conversations, but

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in a very comfortable way, because
we have learned how to kind of create

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that condition of emotional mastery
and an undistorted thinking of a

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discovery of the full diamond of truth.

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So that your facet of truth can be
integrated with my facet of truth,

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with somebody else's facet of truth, to
create a much more richer perspective.

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The third of these five energies
is what I call love and love,

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you know, it's not a common
word that we use in business.

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But, you know, it is, to me, like
one of the most critical things that

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we want to open ourselves up to.

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And you do see that in certain
storied cultures and certain

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remarkable organizations and leaders.

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And love is about taking joy
in other people's joy, finding

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success in other people's success.

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You know, isn't that what happens
when you know, you have a child,

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or when you fall in love, you
know, their joy becomes your joy.

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And isn't that the same kind of,
if you want to call it energy, not

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from a romantic standpoint, but
just fundamentally from a human

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to human connection standpoint
that we should strive to have in

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our team and our organizations.

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My studies, for example,
high performing sports teams.

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It means that the most common word
that you hear in those high performing

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teams about how they describe their
relationship with each other is family.

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So creating a culture of belonging,
creating a culture of unconditional

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respect, creating a culture of
empathetic attunement to each other.

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That is what the love energy is about.

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And this is not just
about you and your team.

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It's also about you and your clients.

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It's about you and your community.

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It is about you and your cause.

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So this can be applied
to all those levels.

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The heart-based approach to leadership.

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The fourth of these five energies
is to recognize that you and I,

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we are always work in progress,
regardless of what, again, you

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know, success, we have at the end.

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There is always room for
us to learn and adapt and

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change and evolve and grow.

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And to that end, applying this
growth mindset that professor Carol

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Dweck from Stanford has really
popularized in a very beautiful

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way, you know, in the recent times.

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Being able to recognize the character
and personality and leadership

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qualities and the strengths that a
team has or doesn't have, how one

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department is behaving with another
department in your organization, how

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your overall organization is behaving.

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Any and all of these are essentially
work in progress and yes, we will fail.

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Yes, we will aspire.

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Yes, we will stumble, but we can learn
our way into becoming the more newer

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and improved version of ourselves.

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And every year we become individually
and collectively wiser and

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stronger, that is the growth energy.

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The fifth and final energy is
what I call self realization.

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And this energy is about really
thinking about how, you know, at the

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end of the day, if I get to identify
with stuff on the outside, I limit

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myself, I get too caught up in
attachments about, you know, how can

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I win the admiration of these people?

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How can I get to really achieve
that particular promotion

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or that bonus, or that goal.

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Self-realization says,
recognize that from within

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you already have everything.

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Practices like mindfulness and
meditation and solitude, take us to

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a place where we actually start to
tap into a wellspring, a wellspring

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of joy and fulfillment and reward
and self-worth and tranquility from

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within that is essentially something
that is just not limited at all.

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And once we get that, then we're
able to go into the world, not from

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a place of neediness, but from a
place of serving whatever collective

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was that we are inspired to work
with our teams and ourselves on.

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That is the self-realization energy.

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The other thing this energy
does is it opens us to listen

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to our intuition because once we
have that calm, tranquil space

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within, insights will come to us.

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The subconscious mind will get
activated and will provide us new

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guidance, new stirrings, certain
signals about whether this is

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the right person to hire or not.

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Is this the right time to
launch this project or not?

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Should you be listening and
tuning in to what the other

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person's resistance is?

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Or should you be arguing and debating
and pushing through with your agenda?

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Any of these things were just so
hard to do purely from an analytical.

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And, because of which someone
like Albert Einstein once

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said that, you know what, the
intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

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And the rational mind
is a spiritual servant.

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We have created a society that honors
the servant and has forgotten the gift.

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These energies can be translated
into actions, but if you think

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about it, that is how you would
learn any great human discipline.

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Start by learning to activate
these five energies in your core.

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Then learn some library of actions
that puts purpose into action.

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Puts love into action.

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Puts growth into action.

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Puts wisdom into action.

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And then over time practice and wire
your brain to be able to operate

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with these with a certain level
of mastery so that the neurons in

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your brain that are firing together
end up over time wiring together.

We are living in one of the most
transformative times in our lives.

The global coronavirus pandemic has
forced business models and teams to

In these unprecedented times, we
look to our leaders to help bring

out the best in ourselves, our
businesses, and bring a new and better

CEO of Mentora, Hitendra Wadhwa, offers
leaders a slice of his leadership

toolkit by identifying the five key
energies leaders should activate to

This leadership model allows leaders
to be guided by not only authenticity

and agility, but the ability to
find the right solutions that better

serve their teams, problem solve and
communicate effectively for the overall

Let's turn to one of the
revolutionary models of the 20th

century, Einstein's view that matter
is nothing but condense energy.

Well, maybe leadership is also
a form of condensed energy.

In my work, in the work we're doing
with organizations such as Accenture

and Erickson and Kraft-Heinz and
others, as well as with my MBA and

Being involved in five
energy model for leadership.

And I want to introduce those
five energies to you now.

Purpose is about recognizing
that the outer game always

But the inner game can be very
anchored in our values, in our purpose.

And then we re-express those on the
outside, depending on what's needed.

If the conditions change,
if our resources increase

If the resources decrease or if
we fail at a certain project, we

But always, always using those outer
goals as markers, as milestones

in the path to pursuing our values
and our purpose, we can apply

We can apply that to our teams
and to our organizations.

And there are certain practices that
we teach, for example, how to do

that mapping so that the authentic
journey and spark that each individual

is yearning to go on based on their
level of experiences, their highs

and lows that they want to end
up over the course of the life to

create a meaningful life, how to
connect that with the collective

The second of these five energies
is what I call wisdom and wisdom

is about recognizing that in our
service of a purpose, we always

We seek to open ourselves up, our
hearts and minds to insights and

knowledge and understanding in
whichever form it knocks on our door.

And sometimes you and I, we get
so agitated and so attached.

So let's say upset, what have you,
that our lens gets distorted and we

are not able to think or see things
in that kind of like perfect clear

And so this wisdom energy is about
training people to be emotionally

aware and to carry that energy of
their emotions and thoughts in a

direction that is in service of truth
and in service of their purpose.

Learn to create a space where we can
have uncomfortable conversations, but

in a very comfortable way, because
we have learned how to kind of create

that condition of emotional mastery
and an undistorted thinking of a

So that your facet of truth can be
integrated with my facet of truth,

with somebody else's facet of truth, to
create a much more richer perspective.

The third of these five energies
is what I call love and love,

you know, it's not a common
word that we use in business.

But, you know, it is, to me, like
one of the most critical things that

And you do see that in certain
storied cultures and certain

And love is about taking joy
in other people's joy, finding

You know, isn't that what happens
when you know, you have a child,

or when you fall in love, you
know, their joy becomes your joy.

And isn't that the same kind of,
if you want to call it energy, not

from a romantic standpoint, but
just fundamentally from a human

to human connection standpoint
that we should strive to have in

My studies, for example,
high performing sports teams.

It means that the most common word
that you hear in those high performing

teams about how they describe their
relationship with each other is family.

So creating a culture of belonging,
creating a culture of unconditional

respect, creating a culture of
empathetic attunement to each other.

And this is not just
about you and your team.

So this can be applied
to all those levels.

The fourth of these five energies
is to recognize that you and I,

we are always work in progress,
regardless of what, again, you

There is always room for
us to learn and adapt and

And to that end, applying this
growth mindset that professor Carol

Dweck from Stanford has really
popularized in a very beautiful

Being able to recognize the character
and personality and leadership

qualities and the strengths that a
team has or doesn't have, how one

department is behaving with another
department in your organization, how

Any and all of these are essentially
work in progress and yes, we will fail.

Expert Insight

During unprecedented times, leaders are expected to find a new and better way of operating into the future.
Could a toolkit of five key energies help you to better serve your team and organization?
Hitendra Wadhwa, founder and CEO of Mentora, presents five key energies leaders should activate to lead from their inner core.

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Hitendra Wadhwa 

Founder and CEO 

The Covid pandemic forced business models to change and adapt quickly. 
Hintendra Wadhwa says, "If the matter is a form of condensed energy as Einstein said, then maybe leadership is also a form of condensed energy too."
Wadhwa offers a new toolkit based on five key energies that leaders should activate. 

Chapter 1: Introduction

 Chapter 2: Five energy model for leadership

The outer game always needs to be very fluid, but the inner game can be anchored with our values and purpose

1 - Purpose

In our purpose, we need to always be true to ourselves and to others. It is important to direct your emotions and thoughts in the service of your purpose.

2 - Wisdom

From a human connection standpoint; this third energy means finding joy in other people's joy and finding success in other people's success towards creating a culture of belonging and respect. 

3 - Love

There's always room for us to adapt, change, learn and grow. 

4 - Growth

Operate mindfully from the tranquil spirit within you that opens us to listen to our intuitions. 
Start by learning to activate these five energies in your inner core, then learn how to put them into action.