
Unleashing the Hour of Power
In my book The Corporate Sufi, and also earlier in this book, I advocated the “Hour of power” (20 minutes

In my book The Corporate Sufi, and also earlier in this book, I advocated the “Hour of power” (20 minutes

In stable times, habitual patterns work for you. They become your preferred patterns of reacting. A customer delays payment. You
I once asked a senior leader how much of his week was spent in meetings. “About sixty percent,” he said.
I was speaking with a business leader whose company was doing well by every traditional measure. Revenue was growing. The
Intelligence. Ambition. Influence. Prosperity. For decades these have been the traditional markers of success. Yet experience keeps reminding us that,
