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Aug 25, 2022Liked by Thorsteinn Siglaugsson

Very interesting indeed. Somehow, I relate this subject to lack of self-awareness and poor leadership. In my managerial experience, both contribute to a dangerous confussion at an individual level which, in turn, expose people to a high level of manipulation. Especially when the manipulator despises human values.

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Thanks. It is interesting how you relate this with management and leadership. Do you think we might look at the corporation as a microcosm against the macrocosm of society, where in both essentially the same principles apply in this regard?

Related to this also, at the systemic level, I wonder if one of the reasons we ended up in the mess we are now in after 30 months of mostly misguided strategies, is that we have, in a situation that is, or is perceived as unprecedented and uncertain, and thus calls for true leadership, made do with delegating decision making to people with management rather than leadership capabilities, equipped only to running a system that is complicated, but neither complex nor chaotic? I'm referring here to the Cynefin framework and the different capabilities needed at different levels of complexity.

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