by Adriano Pianesi | Feb 22, 2020 | leadership workshop, orchestrating leadership at work
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 | Sep 10, 2017 | coaching skills, inner work of leadership, orchestrating leadership at work
I have already talked about the perennial search of the hero as a leader. There is an entire leadership development industry that caters to this idea. HR calls it the Competency Model: learn these skills, add some vision, a pinch of emotional intelligence; develop...
by Adriano Pianesi | Sep 10, 2017 | orchestrating leadership at work
The word “leadership” is often used in a variety of contexts with different meanings. Adding insult to injury, many of these meanings describe very different things, like skills, specific actions, values or people. That is, often when we use the word...
by Adriano Pianesi | Sep 10, 2017 | orchestrating leadership at work
In a letter written in 1817 to his brother the romantic poet John Keats referring to Shakespeare talked about a special ability he called “negative capability”. According to Keats Shakespeare had this ability to suspend his values, assumptions, beliefs and...
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