{"id":8840,"date":"2026-09-29T14:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T12:26:16","slug":"i-need-your-help-choosing-my-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/uncategorized\/i-need-your-help-choosing-my-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"I need your help choosing my topic &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230; because I\u2019m speaking at The Effortless Summit on November 17-18 and sharing the virtual stage with John Gray, Ken Honda, Janet Attwood, and more.<br><br>And I\u2019ve 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 underneath?<br><br>Because quite often we try to solve things on the surface: we fix communication, add a new process, set a goal, have a difficult conversation, motivate people, try harder etc. Sometimes it helps of course.<br><br>But often the same issue comes back in a slightly different form and that\u2019s the part I\u2019m most interested in.<br><br>What if the problem we are trying to solve is actually only a symptom? What if we keep changing the visible layer, while the deeper pattern underneath stays exactly the same?<br><br>This is also very closely connected to my next book what will come out in some months (first in Estonian tho).<br><br>For the summit, I need to choose one angle and keep it focused, so I\u2019d love your input. Which of these would you most want to hear about?<br><br>1. Why we keep solving symptoms and how to stop the same problems from coming back?<br>How often leadership becomes an endless cycle of fixing visible problems while the real causes remain untouched.<br><br>2. Why people don\u2019t take responsibility and what leaders may be doing to reinforce it?<br>Why employees can get stuck in victim, rescuer and persecutor roles and how leaders can step into the observer position to create more ownership instead of carrying responsibility for others.<br><br>3. How to make invisible dynamics visible and work with what is really going on?<br>How hidden patterns, unspoken tensions and dynamics beneath the surface shape our decisions, relationships and results, often without us even noticing them.<br><br>Just comment 1, 2 or 3. And if you feel like adding a sentence about why that one speaks to you, even better. I\u2019m genuinely curious which direction resonates most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790616770663-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo of Ivar Raav, taken by Joosep Ints.\" class=\"wp-image-8841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790616770663-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790616770663-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790616770663-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790616770663-600x900.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790616770663.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; because I\u2019m 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\u2019ve 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8843,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions\/8843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}