The present invention is a method for teaching leadership skills to a designated leader of an organization. It includes the steps of teaching that: (a) a barrier to achieving desired organizational results comes from the dysfunctional behavior exhibited by the ones that the leader is trying to lead, (b) such dysfunctional behavior is likely driven by one's ego-driven, dysfunctional beliefs, (c) to remedy dysfunctional behavior, a leader must alter the ego-driven, dysfunctional beliefs which drive the behavior, and (d) to mitigate one's ego-driven, dysfunctional behavior, one may use any or all of the following techniques: (1) the use of despair or hopelessness to create an emptiness or void within which one exhibiting dysfunctional behavior can discover the courage to persevere and undergo the task of forsaking one's old beliefs and formulating new beliefs that allow one to adopt an authentic commitment to achieving desired organizational results, (2) the use of a compelling saga or passionate story in which one may believe and use to fill the voids in one's organizational life, (3) the creation of a feeling of shame in one exhibiting dysfunctional behavior as a means to promote the demise of one's ego-driven dysfunctional behavior, and (4) the creation of aligned beliefs within an organization to change the experiential environment of an organization.