Tag: leadership
-
Experience and Wisdom Are NOT Synonyms
We place enormous faith in experience. We promote people who have it, defer to organizations that have accumulated it, and assume that time spent doing something naturally produces wisdom. It’s one of our deepest beliefs about how learning works. It’s also, quietly, one of our more dangerous assumptions. Experience alone doesn’t always teach. Interpretation does.…
-
Building Trust Through Predictable Reasoning
We think we know what builds trust. Honesty. Consistency. Competence. Good intentions clearly communicated. And so, we work to demonstrate all of these things and still find that something essential remains missing. People are cordial but guarded. Capable but not quite committed. Present but not fully buying in. ✨ What’s missing is usually this: People…
-
The Isolation of Leadership: Understanding the Loneliness
AC/DC sang how it’s not just a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll. The lyrics reference the lonely and exclusive, and often unpleasant experiences that accompany stardom. Leadership has many of these feelings, in common, because both career journeys are isolating: Not because others aren’t present, but because few…
-
Want to be Influential? Inspire Others to Voluntarily Adopt Your Interpretations
We’ve all tried to convince someone of something we believed deeply. We armed ourselves with solid arguments, compelling evidence, maybe even an emotional appeal — yet, watched it go nowhere. They nodded politely. They may have even complied. But nothing really changed. That’s because argument alone rarely creates lasting influence. What actually changes behavior is…