by Adriano Pianesi | Feb 28, 2020 | Leadership, leadership activities
Have you ever been in a meeting titled “Lessons Learned”? It’s a corporate ritual of learning form experience, a specific time when people, at the end of a long project, finally learn something from it. I can’t stand lessons learned meetings, because...
by Adriano Pianesi | Feb 25, 2020 | facilitating collaboration
There is a word in Italian and other romance languages that can’t be translated into English: Simpatico. The dictionary defines the word as [sim-‘pä-ti-‘kō] adj Informal 1. pleasant or congenial 2. of similar mind or temperament; compatible. I have...
by Adriano Pianesi | Feb 22, 2020 | orchestrating leadership at work, leadership workshop
My parents read “Alice in Wonderland” to me when I was 5. To this day I can still remember every single character (my favorite was the Mad Hatter, il cappellaio matto). As I re-read this book to my children and recently received an email from a friend...
by Adriano Pianesi | Feb 19, 2020 | adaptive leadership coaching
In my leadership classes I often ask people what they think leadership is about. The answer is often something like, “Leadership is about solving problems and making good decisions.” If for so many people leadership is about problem solving and decision...
by Adriano Pianesi | Feb 16, 2020 | adaptive leadership coaching
It’s called Case-in-Point and is an innovative, experiential framework that uses the dynamics unfolding in the room as fodder for leadership development and learning. By seeing a room of individuals as a system and surfacing the complex forces at play in that...
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