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Barbara Kellerman on the Blindspots of Leadership Courses and Programs
The leadership industry and its proponents (including yours truly) can almost come across as religious fanatics and preachers spreading the…
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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The Case for Naive Leaders over Clever, Sophisticated Ones
Being naive has a default negative connotation —ignorant, uninformed, incredulous, or even incompetent. One class of people who exclusively avoid…
Peter Drucker’s Memo to Elon Musk on Managing Knowledge Work
The ongoing turbulence at Twitter under the mercurial and coercive leadership of Elon Musk is perhaps one of the biggest…
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Donald Schon on The Paradox of Real Learning
Often in leadership coaching, clients are asked to "try on" a new behavior just as they would try…
Strategy as Tetris rather than Chess
Is chess a good analogy to describe decision making and strategy in organizations? For most folks, probably not.
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Carl Rogers On Why Teaching is Overrated
Carl Rogers, one of the most pre-eminent psychologists of the twentieth century, delivered a speech at Harvard in 1952 that…
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Four Types Of Careers and their Learning Barriers
In their book Coaching with Colleagues, Erik de Haan and Yvonne Burger identify four common but prominent career patterns:
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Mintzberg on Managing the Flow of Information and Influence
Managerial effectiveness often hinges on how well their unit interacts not just internally but externally as well. In one definition,…
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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…
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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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