Reboot

Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

By: Jerry Colonna

Narrated by: Jerry Colonna

One of the start-up world’s most in-demand executive coaches—hailed as the “CEO Whisperer” (Gimlet Media)—reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical to professional success and healthy relationships in all realms of life.

Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons, the psychological habits and behavioral patterns that have helped them to succeed—molding them into highly accomplished individuals—yet have been detrimental to their relationships and ultimate well-being. Now, this venture capitalist turned executive coach shares his unusual yet highly effective blend of Buddhism, Jungian therapy, and entrepreneurial straight talk to help leaders overcome their own psychological traumas. Reboot is a journey of radical self-inquiry, helping you to reset your life by sorting through the emotional baggage that is holding you back professionally, and even more important, in your relationships.

Jerry has taught CEOs and their top teams to realize their potential by using the raw material of their lives to find meaning, to build healthy interpersonal bonds, and to become more compassionate and bold leaders. In Reboot, he inspires everyone to hold themselves responsible for their choices and for the possibility of truly achieving their dreams.

Work does not have to destroy us. Work can be the way in which we achieve our fullest self, Jerry firmly believes. What we need, sometimes, is a chance to reset our goals and to reconnect with our deepest selves and with each other. Reboot moves and empowers us to begin this journey.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

This book changed my life.

Real talk. It opened my soul up to the human I am meant to be, the work I am meant to do and the adult I’m ready to become. Thank you Jerry.

Amazing

So deep and real. Must read no matter where you are in life, business or leadership.

Profoundly human

a profoundly human and deep book which leaves you with many more questions than answers. this book also testifies to the simple fact that success is really not what we make it out to be. success is deeply personal and individual, but certainly not about money, Fame or power. Jerry's quest to become a better human and therefore better leader will leave you asking many questions of yourself and how you would like others to remember you when the time comes. Worth the read and if you have the time, read it twice.

insightful

insightful insightful insightful gotta make 15 words is annoying. ugh so dumb. hope this is it

More like a biography than leadership self help

he spends a lot of time talking about his personal journey and examples of how he's helped people and not much time talking about doing the thing he does. I guess that makes sense. if he takes about the thing he does he might not be able to sell that anymore.

there are occasional question prompts, but they don't get much time or explanation.

if you really want to hear about how this guy cries a lot, and then figure out in your own how maybe some of the stuff he talks about could be interpreted, rearranged, and changed to apply it to your life, then this is a great book.

if you were hoping for a book that leads (guides, points in a general direction even if it's not specific) you down any kind of vague or generic path of self discovery, this is not the book for you. it's kind of like watching someone build a birdhouse but not explaining anything they are doing our what tools they are using, then hoping you can figure out how to build a birdhouse of your own. obviously this kind of work that he's doing isn't as step by step as a birdhouse, but it's almost like he's not even trying to help.