The Critical Friendship Method: A Different Approach to Executive Coaching
Most executive coaching is too polite. There. I said it. A leader walks in, describes the symptoms, and the coach asks careful questions designed to guide the client toward their own insight. It’s pleasant. It’s professional. And for leaders operating at the very...
Authority Versus Legitimacy
When power remains, but consent dissolves I recently read an article on Time that described a situation both disturbing and increasingly familiar. It outlined a presidency that generates global tension on an almost daily basis. A leader who, in the eyes of roughly...
Leadership Is Not a Spiritual Journey
And why that is exactly where its strength lies There is a recurring impulse to frame leadership as something spiritual. The greater the responsibility, the stronger the urge to surround it with concepts such as awareness, purpose, calling, or even enlightenment. In...