Serial Entrepreneur On How Inner Work Creates Outer Results (Dave Hersh)

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A lot of people think consciousness work is just a way to feel better. 

When you hold this perspective, the connection between inner work and external results is tenuous.

Maybe you think improving your temperament might make you a better leader and less likely to burnout. But that’s about it. 

This is an incredibly limited perspective that misses the big picture.

Until you work on your consciousness, you’re mostly just operating your life through a set of inherited patterns you didn’t choose.

This would be fine if they were all helpful, but most people’s unconscious patterns are oriented around avoiding harm and using the external world to get love.

So they perceive the world through the narrow lens of these patterns which direct all their activities. 

This is why entrepreneurs raise money before they should, stay in businesses they don’t care about, and pursue opportunities that aren’t actually aligned with the needs of their business.

I was thrilled to meet another entrepreneur who sees this clearly and recognizes the challenges this dynamic can create in our current version of capitalism.  

Dave Hersh is serial entrepreneur, founding CEO of Jive (NASD: JIVE), partner at Metamorph Partners, and author of the new book Reignition. 

In this conversation, we discuss how inner transformation can change the trajectory of your career and company.

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Dave believes when we face the patterns from our past that no longer serve us, we create space to start to integrate powerful new sources of intelligence like deep intuition.

Like Dave, I believe intuition is a superpower. Once you have a strong connection to your inner wisdom, it can help you see around corners and make deeply aligned decisions. 

In Dave’s experience, accessing inner wisdom can be the difference between a company being stuck vs. thriving. He shares how in order to connect with intuition, you need to prioritize the inner work that obfuscates this latent potential. 

This is something I’m very passionate about so it was exciting to see someone that’s had as much conventional success as Dave talk about it.

Dave and I also talk about the role of inner work in the AI world we are moving into. 

He believes that there will be companies that breakout from the rest because they focus on the things that are uniquely human. This makes a lot of sense to me.

AI should help people and companies do more of what humans are good at. And the path to becoming a better human seems pretty aligned to working on your consciousness.