Nº 08 · Late Spring · MMXXVII
The Crisis of Disembodied Leadership
Mindful Leadership Mastery — Part I, Chapter 1, §1.1.
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Chapter 1 · §1.1 · 8 min
Disembodied LeadershipThe leadership models you inherited were engineered for a world that no longer exists. The body you have been ignoring is the instrument through which all your leadership actually occurs.
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Chapter 1 · §1.1b · 6 min
The Cost of Leading From the Neck UpWhat a body sends when its leader has been ignoring it for twenty years. Spoiler: the team can read it; they just won't tell you.
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Chapter 1 · §1.1c · 5 min
The Stage-Five DoorwayKegan's fifth stage — the self-transforming mind — is not a personality upgrade. It is what becomes possible when the body finally arrives at the meeting.
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Chapter · 01 · 5 min
The Inheritance of the Cartesian OfficeHow leadership got disembodied. Blame Descartes. Then blame open-plan offices. Then blame yourself, briefly, and then get on with it.
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Chapter · 02 · 6 min
The Cost of the Floating HeadBurnout, brittle decisions, and teams that mirror their leader's tension. You are contagious. The question is what strain.
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Chapter · 03 · 7 min
Stage 4 and its DiscontentsThe achievement of self-authorship — and its ceiling. Congratulations on becoming the CEO of your own suffering.
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Chapter · 04 · 8 min
The Body as Leadership SurveillanceYour body has been keeping records you have not been reading. It would like to submit its findings. In private, if possible.
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Chapter · 05 · 5 min
The First Re-EntryFive minutes of contact with the body before any meeting. Yes, five. The world will not end. Time it if you do not believe us.
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Chapter · 06 · 6 min
The Smartphone as Disembodiment EngineHow the device trains you out of your skin. Also the reason your thumb has its own personality now.
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Chapter · 07 · 7 min
Disembodiment in HiringWhy we keep picking heads and getting people. All the people come with bodies, it turns out. This has been a surprise to no one except HR.
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Chapter · 08 · 8 min
Disembodiment in StrategyPlans built without bodies. The signature failure mode of the last four decades of consulting.
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Chapter · 09 · 5 min
Disembodiment in ConflictWhy hard conversations require a regulated nervous system, not a stronger argument. If you win with logic and lose the person, you lost.