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Welcome to Wonderland: Navigating Absurdity and Disproportion in the Corporate World
Micropsia and macropsia are neurological phenomena that alter a person’s perception of reality. In micropsia, objects appear smaller than they actually are. In macropsia, they appear larger. The object itself has not changed. Reality remains intact. What changes is the brain’s interpretation of what it sees. These perceptual distortions are associated with what is now…
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Leaders Who Amplify Anxiety Eventually Create Paralysis
There is no shortage of reasons to feel anxious about the future. Turn on the news, scroll through social media, or listen to political discourse almost anywhere in the world and you will be confronted by a steady stream of crises, conflicts, economic uncertainty, social division, institutional distrust and predictions of decline. The dominant mood…
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Stop coasting – the leadership growth framework that keeps ego in check
One of the greatest risks in leadership is not incompetence. It’s believing you’ve already arrived. The moment we start overestimating our skills, experience, or understanding, growth begins to slow. We stop seeking feedback and stop questioning our assumptions. We become more interested in protecting our reputation than improving our capability. In Ego Is the Enemy,…
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Performative Leadership: A Warning for Organizations and Society
Conducting business today can sometimes feel like living in the Twilight Zone, where reality seems slightly distorted and things that would once have been considered absurd are accepted without question. Behaviors that once would have been questioned, challenged, or dismissed have become normalized. Civility is increasingly treated as optional. Good sense is often overshadowed by…
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What is the Point?
Feeling like there is no obvious point to it all is a deeply human experience, especially during overwhelming times. And these current times are if nothing else – overwhelming. With 24/7 news cycles, rapid technological shifts, and global volatility, it is completely normal to feel overstimulated and at the same time wondering what exactly is…
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Conversion of Knowledge of Acquaintance into Knowledge About Is a Risky Exercise
My WHY, according to the WHY Institute, is Make Sense. When I first encountered the WHY.os framework, I remember feeling a strange sense of recognition. The WHY Institute describes a WHY as the fundamental motivation that drives a person’s behavior, decisions, and way of seeing the world. In their model, the WHY is expressed through…
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Why “One Size Fits All” Decision Training Fails
There is value in teaching and training leaders to become more effective in areas like decision-making, communication, delegation, negotiation, strategic planning, conflict resolution, emotional regulation, and execution. Organizations need these things. Teams function better when leaders can slow down enough to evaluate options, regulate reactions, ask better questions, and avoid making decisions from pure panic…
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Which is worse: ignoring symptoms or treating them as root cause
Organizational exhaustion comes from repeatedly solving problems that never fully go away. The names change. The people involved may change. The location where the strain appears may shift slightly. But underneath it all, there is often the uncomfortable feeling that the issue itself is somehow still alive, simply moving through different forms. A business misses…
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What Does it Cost to Exist in the Wrong Environment
One of the quieter tragedies in life is how long human beings can survive in environments that are fundamentally wrong for them. Just survive…and survival is deceptive because from the outside it can still look functional. The person still shows up. Still produces. Still responds to emails. Still performs competence. Still keeps the business moving.…
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A technically successful intervention can still create strain elsewhere.
I had a dental appointment today. Regular procedure – a filling. The filling itself did not take very long. What took time was everything that came after. The repeated checking. The tiny adjustments. The recalibration of pressure. Bite down. Slide your jaw. How does that feel? Again. Again. Again. What my dentist was doing then…
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