Leadership is not a position or a set of skills. It is a kind of love, a relationship that makes us feel safe and free at once.

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Beautiful meditation on care as the foundation of leadership - care for others and care for a purpose beyond one’s own advancement

Great article by the always excellent Gianpiero Petriglieri sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to…

Yes. Friendship can be complicated in the workplace. And. It can be enriching, empowering, even revolutionary.

My latest, in MIT Sloan Management Review.
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We cannot change the world if we are not prepared to change our world.

That’s why personal and systemic work need to go hand in hand when we try to practice and develop leadership.

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“This idea, this practice of humanising leadership and humanising work is something that has really oriented my professional trajectory from the very beginning and I still feel strongly [about] today.” Gianpiero Petriglieri

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I’m in Middle Age Heaven.

Senior executives in half-empty offices are a little bit like priests standing in half-filled churches. If half your congregation has stopped showing up, do you believe that they are probably praying just as hard at home? Probably not. Gianpiero Petriglieri

In a post-COVID world, 'one place — the office — still hasn’t been fully repopulated'. Don't miss INSEAD Professor of Organisational Behaviour Gianpiero Petriglieri Gianpiero Petriglieri contributing to the Washington Post. washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…

“In the end, the whole ordeal, overtly designed to challenge a tradition, covertly ends up reinforcing it.”

I’ve seen this happen but never seen it described so clearly.

“These new leaders are invited, or more precisely seduced, to shake things up, and then get progressively alienated and incapacitated.” Other leaders object to their style, ask them to follow a process.

“Hiring a disruptor can be a conservative move, an unconscious way to prove the power of traditions and blame someone else’s style for our irrational investment in them.” Gianpiero Petriglieri hbr.org/2023/04/drivin…

Why do companies hire outsiders to think differently and then so often fire or sideline them … for thinking differently?

Remember that good #leadership is not a matter of skills or style. Leadership, at its core, is an argument with tradition. As a leader, you are always relating to a tradition that you are trying to preserve, expand, or change Gianpiero Petriglieri

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I love what Gianpiero Petriglieri says in this #ChangeManagement piece: 'Care for tradition can make change possible.' The key to ushering in change as #leaders is to understand your company's social defenses and develop strategies to work through them. hbr.org/2023/04/drivin…

❤️❤️❤️Is there such thing as “caring too much”? Or is that ‘feedback’ a secret invitation to stop trying to change the world the way you mean to?

'New #leaders must understand their organizations’ social defenses, and develop sensitive strategies to work through them if they want to usher in the change they were hired to bring.' An excellent article about #ChangeManagement by Gianpiero Petriglieri. hbr.org/2023/04/drivin…

An insightful #ChangeManagement piece from Gianpiero Petriglieri. I agree that 'New leaders must understand their organizations’ social defenses, and develop sensitive strategies to work through them if they want to usher in the change they were hired to bring.' hbr.org/2023/04/drivin…

'We’ve all had the experience of staying in a job or relationship too long, partially out of denial and partially from fear of the unknown. Organizations are no different.' Gianpiero Petriglieri insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/…