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The “Being Smart” Strategy To Avoid Real Learning In A Leadership Lab

The “Being Smart” Strategy To Avoid Real Learning In A Leadership Lab

by Adriano Pianesi | Nov 23, 2020 | leadership lab

I have been teaching in many leadership programs and I have seen first-hand what it means for the participants to take the “cognitive shortcut” when it comes to bring a group on the edge of its own learning. For instructors and participants alike, how much...
Are The Heroes Gone? An Old Leadership Theory In My Leadership Lab

Are The Heroes Gone? An Old Leadership Theory In My Leadership Lab

by Adriano Pianesi | Jul 19, 2020 | communityship, leadership lab, leadership theory

I have used this painting in my leadership labs to describe an old leadership theory. The Battle of the Milvian Bridge, or The Battle at Pons Milvius, is a fresco in the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. It is located in the Sala di...

Can You Stay In The Question? The Leadership Lab Of Inquiry

by Adriano Pianesi | Mar 14, 2020 | leadership lab

I came across again this lovely quote of Rainer Maria Rilke from “Letters to a Young Poet”. Those are words of wisdom, shared with a man  – the young poet – confused about his future, having to choose between a military career or the life of...
So Many Leadership Labs, So Little Change: Five Possible Explanations…

So Many Leadership Labs, So Little Change: Five Possible Explanations…

by Adriano Pianesi | Sep 11, 2017 | leadership lab

“My belief is that the way we create conversations that overcome the fragmented nature of our communities is what creates an alternative future.This can be a difficult stance to take for we have a deeply held belief that the way to make a difference in the world...
Is Leadership About Running The Four Bases Of “Not Knowing”?

Is Leadership About Running The Four Bases Of “Not Knowing”?

by Adriano Pianesi | Sep 11, 2017 | leadership lab

Here is one of the most valuable abilities for leaders in our times: becoming more comfortable in a place of ”not knowing”, in a situation of ambiguity, when facing events beyond our control. What is our “default” in those situation? We fight, resist, and...

No Touchy Feely Stuff! The Myth Of Rationality And My Leadership Lab

by Adriano Pianesi | Sep 10, 2017 | leadership lab

Dualism, the idea that thinking and feeling are separated, can be traced from Plato to Descartes, and from Kant to the Logical Positivists. For Plato, emotions were defects, irrational urges that needed controlling, and for Kant, emotions were regarded as an illness....

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