Leadership in Chaos
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Leadership in Chaos: 39th edition. hard coaching, systems, mind gyms. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 39th edition 🙌. “It dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns…that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down…

Leadership in Chaos: 38th edition. ai + hi, light and shade, disagreement. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 38th edition 🙌. “Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you’re smarter than you are.” Shane Parrish Change: ai +…

Leadership in Chaos: 37th edition. the gap, listening practice, be yourself. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 37th edition 🙌. “Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood”. Kazuo Ishiguro. Culture: the gap. In 2024, the UK…

Leadership in Chaos: 36th edition. tiny experiments, moments, the rapids are the river. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 36th edition 🙌. “The work right now is to become immense. We have to get our arms around immense things. Violence and hatred and bigotry and racism. And also, around love and compassion and devotion and…

Leadership in Chaos: 35th edition. octopus org, give up, consensus. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 35th edition 🙌. “Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. It’s all about taking in as much of what’s out there as you can, and not letting the excuses and the dreariness of some of the obligations you’ll soon…

Leadership in Chaos: 34th edition. mind the gap, patience, the changing of change. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 34th edition 🙌. “I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than…

Leadership in Chaos: 33rd edition. space and time, generation numb, mediocre voices. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 33rd edition 🙌. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” William Butler Yeats Culture: space and time. When we think of Space and Time, we often think of them…

Leadership in Chaos: 32nd edition. three body problems, jazz rhythms, belief crisis. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 32nd edition 🙌. “The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.” Carl Jung Culture: three body problems. Picture this. You’ve just hired a candidate. They’ve a great track…

Leadership in Chaos: 31st edition. Ambition, givers, takers and matchers, sensemaking. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 31st edition 🙌. “We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos Leadership: ambition. Ambition is a curious thing. Just like the power of love, it can…

Leadership in Chaos: 30th edition. Less is more, radiators and drains, tough talkers vs strong leaders. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 30th edition 🙌. “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favourable”. Seneca Leadership: less is more. We all do it. Whether cooking for a dinner party,…

Leadership in Chaos: 29th edition. What, not why, infinite work, strategic culture. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 29th edition 🙌. “The day I decided that my life was magical, there was suddenly magic all around me.” Marabeth Quin, mixed media artist. Leadership: what not why. You probably think self awareness is important, right? Most people…

Leadership in Chaos: 28th edition. Sharpen your axe, lean in, pygmalion effect. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 28th edition 🙌. “I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every…

Leadership in Chaos: 27th edition. New frontiers, embarrassment, odyssey plan. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 27th edition 🙌. “Priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.” Merlin Mann Change: new frontiers. Microsoft just published their 2025 Work Trend Index Report, and it’s pretty revealing stuff. AI…

Leadership in Chaos: 26th edition. severed, soldier or scout?, future trust. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 26th edition 🙌. “Taking off is optional. Landing is not.” Nassim Taleb Culture: severed. Season 2 of Severance is showing on Apple TV. It centres on a company (Lumon Industries) where job volunteers undertake a surgical procedure that splits…

Leadership in Chaos: 25th edition. comfort trap, change violence, the passionate few. Feb 27, 2025 Hi 👋, welcome back to our 25th edition 🙌. “Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go”. T. S. Elliot Culture: comfort trap. There’s been great progress made in modern workplace culture.…

Leadership in Chaos: 24th edition. blind spots, trust, stories. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 24th edition 🙌. “We should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors do. They don’t try to change the winds or the sea but ensure that they are always…

Leadership in Chaos: 23rd edition. the last war, one note, acts not careers. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 23rd edition 🙌. “When we tell ourselves we’ll do something later, we run the risk of waking up one day and finally realising it’s just not going to happen, not because we failed, but rather because…

Leadership in Chaos: 22nd edition. mistakes and apologies, listening, critical ignoring. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 22nd edition 🙌. “It’s so simple, yet makes such a difference. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’” Mary Kay Ash Leadership: mistakes and apologies.…

Leadership in Chaos: 21st edition. good hope, the network office, soviet lies. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 21st edition 🙌. “If we can recognise that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that *we do not know enough to be pessimistic*.”…

Leadership in Chaos: 20th edition. problem stories, founder mode, shadow and light. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 20th edition 🙌. “The innovator is more often than not met with some degree of condemnation; usually according to the degree of his departure from the prevailing modes of expression… Change is always so hard to accept.”…