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What is Implicit Leadership Theory and How it Affects Careers
What makes someone “leadership material”? We would like to think there’s an objective answer to that question. But often…
Sheril Mathews
I am an executive/leadership coach. Before LS, I worked for 20 years in corporate America in various technical & leadership roles. Have feedback? You can reach me at sheril@leadingsapiens.com.
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Why Developing Negative Capability is Critical in Leadership
We think of capability as a positive term— it’s active and additive rather than passive and subtractive. In leadership,…
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A Strategy of Small Wins and Small Bets - Typical Mistakes and How to Get it Right
In 1984 Karl Weick published a seminal paper titled Small Wins in the American Psychologist Journal. Four decades later, the…
Metanoia-Learning as a Strategy
Organizational learning as one of the central pieces of strategy is still not as common as one would think.
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35 Essential Mid Career Change Frameworks
Changing or quitting careers is hard. Doubly so in mid-career. Should I quit or stay? I grappled with that question…
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The Mundanity of Excellence - Greatness as Mastering the Mundane
Greatness and mastery always look shrouded in mystery from the outside. But look closely and it's more about…
Strategic Agility - Balancing Long Term Focus with Short Term Actions
Leadership, management, and organizations are riddled with paradoxes. The more we recognize them the more we can be effective in…
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How Bezos Thinks - All his Frameworks and Mental Models
In 1994 Amazon was just an idea in someone’s head, that of Jeff Bezos. Today it's a…
Linear Causality vs Circular Causality in Decision Making
The "if...then" way of thinking about cause and effect is common in business. Circular causality is often…
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Leadership can be learned but cannot be taught — the role of coaching
Leadership as with any skill is something we can learn. Paradoxically though, it cannot be taught. How do we navigate…
Using Deliberate Practice to Increase Leadership Effectiveness
Deliberate practice is one of the few proven research-backed frameworks to improve performance. But it's not used enough…
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The Ladder of Inference: A Tool for Better Decisions
Decisions are heavily influenced by our existing mental models of the world. What makes it tricky is that most of…