Do you consider yourself an effective leader? What about parenting? When you think of getting better at something, what's your first instinct? Our default approach is to look outside for help. But an equally fruitful and often better approach is to look inside — the natural process of learning from our| Leading Sapiens
Leaders have to master the basics of the human OS. We examine these core attributes that underlie all frameworks of human peak performance.| Leading Sapiens
Authentic leadership and time management - we don’t often see them in the context of each other. What's the link between authenticity and time?| Leading Sapiens
Leadership like any skill is something we can learn. Paradoxically though, it cannot necessarily be taught. Coaching can help navigate this conundrum.| Leading Sapiens
Leadership development is usually about positive abilities. Negative Capability is often forgotten but equally critical. What is it and what prevents it?| Leading Sapiens
We think action comes from the right mindset. This can be counter-productive. Often mindset follows action. It's easier to control physical action.| Leading Sapiens
In today’s edition, I share a hilarious passage that captures an unfortunate reality of both how we work and live. It’s followed by my own observations on peak performance, and an entire collection of pieces covering different aspects of the same phenomenon.| thelsweekly.substack.com
In The Fifth Discipline, there's a useful primer on systems thinking that I keep going back to. Senge calls it the laws of the fifth discipline, or in other words, laws of systems thinking. [1] Senge's ground-breaking book was published in the early 90s, and yet in the ensuing decades,| Leading Sapiens