Workplace culture is cracking. Discover how identity-based leadership restores trust, motivation, and psychological safety—starting with the leader.
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Slow Productivity and the Return to Human-Scale Leadership
Why doing less—but doing it with weight—is the only way forward
Most leaders aren’t burned out from hard work—they’re eroded by fragmented work. This essay builds on Cal Newport’s Slow Productivity to explore a better way.
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The Disappearance of Inner Life in Executive Culture
Why modern leadership feels more productive, but less human.
As executive culture accelerates, leaders are losing their interior lives. This essay explores how performance culture displaces wisdom—and what must be rebuilt.
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Vision Drift: How Good Organizations Lose Their Way One Decision at a Time
Organizations don’t lose their vision all at once. They drift. This article explores how slow, reasonable compromises pull even the best missions off course—and how identity-first leadership realigns teams before it’s too late.
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Leadership Starts with Self-Definition: Why You Can’t Lead Others If You’re Unclear on Yourself
You can’t lead a team if you don’t know who you are. This article explores why leadership clarity begins with self-definition, and how identity—not personality, confidence, or charisma—is the starting point of durable influence.
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Leaders Are Story Shapers: How Culture Is Formed by What You Choose to Remember
Culture isn’t shaped by values on a slide. It’s shaped by the stories leaders tell—and the ones they choose to retell. This article explores how narrative forms identity, and why the most trusted leaders are curators of memory.
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Culture Isn’t Caught—It’s Trained: Why Every Great Organization Teaches Its People How to Think, Not Just What to Do
Culture isn’t something people absorb by proximity—it’s something they learn through structure, story, and repetition. This article explores why every strong organization must train its culture on purpose, or risk drifting into dysfunction.
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The Trust Gap in Hybrid Teams: Why Remote Work Isn’t the Problem
Remote work isn’t what’s breaking your team—unclear leadership is. This in-depth article explores how the erosion of trust in hybrid teams leads to misalignment, disengagement, and lost momentum—and how to fix it.
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The Influence Journal | Leadership, Trust, and the Psychology of Culture 