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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…
Leadership
Most of the widely disseminated information on leadership is just plain fluff or borderline useless, disconnected from the reality of what practicing managers and leaders face on a daily basis.
I try to cut through the noise and uncover actionable, proven frameworks that lie further upstream.
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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Three Pillars and Two Contexts of Modern Leadership
Modern leadership can be a confusing minefield of topics. At the same time anyone can become good at it by…
Leaders have to Master Basics of the Human OS
The recent mass exodus of employees even from well-paid professional jobs has come as a wake-up call to…
Leadership Communication- The Hidden Role of Language
Language, because of its ubiquity and obviousness, does not get much attention from leaders and organizations as an area for…
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Can we Eliminate Self-Doubt? Should we Even Bother?
Self-doubt is often seen as an impediment to effective leadership or succcess in any other arena. We have an…