Ep 71: Confessions of a Guru - Part 4: Calmest Person in the Boat

The New Series

Yes, indeed, Leadership in Chaos is truly back with an exciting new series – Confessions of a Guru. 

The “Guru” label is deliberately ironic as, in the age of the un-curated digital platform, everyone - it seems - is suddenly a Guru. Self-proclaimed anyway. 😉

The format is to choose a story from my 30+ years of working with leaders globally, which illustrates the best or the worst of some aspect of leadership. 

After telling the story, I then extrapolate the message application for you to consider in your life and work. 

I know you’re busy, so it will always be brief! 

Part 4: Calmest Person in the Boat

We start 2025 with a new episode of the latest series, “Confessions of a Guru”. 

The theme is appropriate to the foggy uncertainty we find ourselves in on the eve of the Trump inauguration and the essential need for leaders to keep calm in pressure, tension, complexity and uncertainty.

This episode explores the following: 

-What’s the connection between the 1970’s Vietnamese refugee crisis and leadership?

-Limbic Leadership = The Dominant Emotion wins

-Leadership reputation is won or lost in the high-stakes Moments that Matter

-It’s about Impact, stupid

The featured story is about a Function Head who spread dis-ease amongst her team, wholly unconsciously and sabotaged beyond repair the good engagement before it had barely taken off the ground.

And, as always, there are some key Reflection questions to mull over as you sail into 2025.