For the first time I had to work with the tops to trigger their personal growth before the global financial crisis of 2008. My company has launched a series of extreme trainings commissioned by the offices of international companies, whose euchers bitterly complained about top management, which, according to the development curve, is stuck on its "plateau". The author of this theory, the well-known scientist of Ukrainian origin Albert Bandura, also called the "plateau" a "valley of death": a person reaches his peak and no longer has the resources to want to develop further.

Rational evidence and "buns" in the form of social packages did not work. And my partner and I followed a path that resonates a little with the experience of international companies and special forces teams that trained new team capabilities across border states - their stories can be found in the book by Stephen Kotler and Jamie Will Fire Thieves. The secret revolution of the changed states. We followed the path of abruptly shifting the landscape for the sake of a charge for personal change. We took the top teams on extreme survival routes for a few days with an in-depth reflection session afterwards. It was pushing them out of a closed bubble into the Great Outdoors. And this was often accompanied by anger and aggression at the time of transformation and incredibly warm and caring states afterwards. At the same time, they almost emotionlessly walked a few meters on a rope over the abyss and jumped on the banjo into the cave, like ducklings in a lake. Calling this order was a habit that didn't even cause a drop of adrenaline. But the real changes began at three points: transitions between bases, self-organized living and walking on glass. After all, this is where the real work on the internal belief systems that set the style of their actions began.