THE NEW WORK PLAYBOOK

Authentic leadership has been one of the biggest ideas in modern leadership development.
More than twenty years of it, and we haven't ended up with more genuine leaders.

In this closing episode of Season 1, I trace how modern authentic leadership movement focused the search for authenticity too much on self-awareness and self-discovery and missed that authenticity in leadership is built in relation with others. At the same time, the organisations leaders work in shape what shows up in the role through what they reward, allow, and tolerate.
The two together are what we end up watching: a workplace performance...

Care is not just good intention. It needs practice.
Three tools to turn caring into practice.

The main episode made the case for why empathy and care are different and why leaders need both.
This reflection episode gives you three practices to make care part of how you lead.

The first is the simplest and most powerful.
Small acts of care propagate through your network in ways researchers have measured, which means you have more influence on the carelessness around you than you may have realised.

The second is a short reflection on the four trust dimensions to consider before...

Do you know the difference between empathy and care?
Many leaders don't. And it's costing us more than we realise.

Most of us have been trained on empathy and assume care comes with it.
But empathy and care don't even activate the same areas of the brain.
And empathy without care is what's been draining leaders for years, without the results we hoped for.

In this episode I take you on the discovery journey that changed how I think about both.
From psychology to neuroscience to philosophy, research has been pointing at a clear distinction for decades. And the difference...

What moral value would most people say they live by?
Across cultures, the answer is honesty.
So why do we pass on the small daily moments where saying something honestly costs hardly anything?

This is the reflection episode following The Broken Spine.
I tell the story of a stranger who once spared me a real embarrassment,
and what that moment taught me about kindness.

We move through two practices for self-trust and two practices for trust with others.
The practices are small.
Their power is consistency.

Trust starts with us.
As trust and care go hand in hand, the next...