There is resistance stemming from the fact that there isn’t enough information yet, and there is resistance that seems to be resistance for the sake of resistance, despite the abundance of explanations. It’s simply about being against it. It’s like a teenager, as one leader described his team. And the classic way to resolve this
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That’s what happened when I walked through the door as part of a workshop and saw Katriin Jüriska looking back at me with a cheerful smile. After spending a few weeks mulling over what to do about finding a co-host for the podcast “Leadership Without Leadership” and letting the matter just settle in the hope
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My journey toward a Ph.D. began at the start of the month when I read a research article with that title. I plan to share my thoughts and insights from my studies here from time to time and connect them to the issues I deal with in my work every day. After all, that’s why
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There’s always a plan in life, but whether we can see it and trust it is another matter. For example, it’s usually only after a difficult period that we realize it was good for something and, in the grand scheme of things, brought us closer to something we didn’t know we wanted, but that we
We can’t see what we can’t see. We can’t manage what we can’t see. But these invisible layers seem to be the underlying cause of many recurring management challenges. When I was writing my next book (to be published in December), I set out to investigate what has been written academically on topics that are
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… because I’m speaking at The Effortless Summit on November 17-18 and sharing the virtual stage with John Gray, Ken Honda, Janet Attwood, and more. And I’ve been thinking about what exactly I want to talk about there. A lot of my work lately has been circling around one question: what is actually driving leaders
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A few days ago, a client used the following phrase to introduce himself: “I usually need to see the big picture, and then I dive into the details.” That got me thinking about how much of the big picture we’re actually able—or willing—to see. And where is the line between the big picture and the
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It’s easy to say, “Slow down,” but why is it actually so hard to do that and follow the advice? Could it be that we don’t really want to take it easier? I often see this in one-on-one counseling sessions: clients come in wanting to plan their time and priorities better, learn to make time
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My Portuguese teacher made this claim to me so that we could discuss it and improve language learning. “Of course they do,” was my reply. That answer came automatically, without thinking, as if out of nowhere. As I reflected on this later in my native language, I realized that, indeed, perhaps everyone always knows this,
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Since today is September 1, it’s very fitting to revisit the podcast withschool principal Sirje Kautsaarthat was released in June. That’s because I began the podcast recording with Sirje by asking exactly that question: how can we possibly know what skills we’ll need in the future job market? Sirje’s answer was wonderfully simple: the best
