LinkedIn's Mindfulness Lead Branches Out To Cultivate Inside Out Leadership – Forbes

After a career as a customer-facing executive, Scott Shute designed and took his dream job, as Head of Mindfulness and Compassion Programs at LinkedIn. On the eve of his departure from LinkedIn, we spoke about Scott’s approach to leadership, which he describes as inside-out. This approach, based in compassion, has never been more critical than now amid the Great Resignation and so much other stress and tumult for employees within and beyond the workplace. Nell Derick Debevoise: You talk about Inside-Out leadership – what does that look like? Scott Shute: One of my favorite quotes is from Rumi: “Yesterday I was clever, and I tried to change the world, and today I am wise, and I’m working on myself.”  These days, we can open the virtual newspaper, and think wow, the world is a messed up place, and I’m not even sure which world I live in, based on which browser I opened. In that context, I could spend energy trying to solve any of those problems, whether climate or social justice or race or education. But I want to spend my energy on consciousness. And compassion.  I’ve had two tracks in my career: a giant part of my life…
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