Leadership

Posts exploring the theory, practice, development and real-world challenges of leadership in organizations and society.

2026: LET THIS BE OUR YEAR OF COURAGE

The crises ahead won’t be solved by better systems, but by leaders willing to carry the burden of genuine responsibility into their communities

Leadership

KNOW THYSELF: The Mirror Test for Leaders

A powerful critique of modern leadership: why competition without telos corrodes character, organisations, and society.

Leadership

THE THEORY-PRACTICE SWINDLE: How Management Killed Leadership

The theory–practice cliché hides a power move: it kills leadership by suppressing ethical judgment and elevating managerial optimisation.

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WHY THE #IDGS MUST FAIL: When "Inner Work" Replaces Wisdom

A forensic critique of the IDGs’ metaphysical emptiness and political evasions, showing why self-optimisation cannot substitute for moral development or systemic change.

Psychology

IT'S THE SYSTEM, STUPID!

If business wants to serve humanity, it must rewire its legal, financial, and ownership systems—not just preach management orthodoxy.

Education

The Diversity Lie: Why "More Voices" Means Less Truth

A rigorous critique of how diversity ideology undermines truth-seeking by replacing epistemic standards with identity-based relativism.

Philosophy

Meet the F#ckers: The Sitcom of Corporate Leadership Development

Why the $150 billion leadership industry keeps replaying the “head vs heart” drama—while leaving wisdom and real transformation off the stage.

Leadership

The Empathy Trap: Good Leadership Demands Judgment, Not Just Feeling

Empathy alone can’t make leaders moral—real leadership demands judgment, courage, and justice, not just sentimental resonance.

Philosophy

The Myth of the Great Leader: Why Pop Leadership Will Never Make You Wise

A critique of pop leadership’s obsession with success and performance, arguing that true greatness lies not in chasing summits, but in continual self-cultivation and orientation to the Good.

Personal Development

The Spirituality of The Road

A poetic reflection on spirituality as a way of being—where leadership becomes a road of presence, attention, and moral becoming.

Personal Development

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN AN AGE OF CRISIS

Ethical leadership begins where management ends — using power as stewardship, not self-interest, in an age of systemic crisis.

Philosophy

BULLSHIT BY THE BOOK: How Leadership Training Hides from Genuine Philosophy—At Your Expense

Every leadership fad hides a contested ethic—and only philosophy can expose which, and why.

Education

LETTING GO IS NOT THE POINT...

Freedom alone is not enough—leadership means taking moral responsibility for the character, wisdom, and flourishing your organisation enables.

Personal Development

METAMORPHOSIS AND METANOIA: What Are You Willing to Be "Broken By"?

A critique of “transformation” rhetoric in leadership—why real metamorphosis begins in rupture, not self-optimisation.

Personal Development

“Leadership Is Love”? Or Just a Bumper Sticker?

Love may inspire, but it also takes wisdom, justice, and expertise to lead well.

Leadership

100 Years of Messy Leadership Theories!

After a century of theories, are we any closer to understanding what leadership demands—or have we just built a tower of Babel?

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Letting Go of Leadership - The Urgent Case for A Global Leadership Iconoclasm

Are you a good leader? In case you are emphatically nodding, how would you know?

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Wanted: Philosophy in Leadership!

It’s not rocket science. Yet in almost every conversation about leadership, someone confuses the gap between what is and what should be.

Personal Development

Leadership

2026: LET THIS BE OUR YEAR OF COURAGE

KNOW THYSELF: The Mirror Test for Leaders

THE THEORY-PRACTICE SWINDLE: How Management Killed Leadership

WHY THE #IDGS MUST FAIL: When "Inner Work" Replaces Wisdom

IT'S THE SYSTEM, STUPID!

The Diversity Lie: Why "More Voices" Means Less Truth

Meet the F#ckers: The Sitcom of Corporate Leadership Development

The Empathy Trap: Good Leadership Demands Judgment, Not Just Feeling

The Myth of the Great Leader: Why Pop Leadership Will Never Make You Wise

The Spirituality of The Road

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN AN AGE OF CRISIS

BULLSHIT BY THE BOOK: How Leadership Training Hides from Genuine Philosophy—At Your Expense

LETTING GO IS NOT THE POINT...

METAMORPHOSIS AND METANOIA: What Are You Willing to Be "Broken By"?

“Leadership Is Love”? Or Just a Bumper Sticker?

100 Years of Messy Leadership Theories!

Letting Go of Leadership - The Urgent Case for A Global Leadership Iconoclasm

Wanted: Philosophy in Leadership!

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