Archive - Adventures in Leadership Land

March 2025

The Dangers of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Does KPI stand for "Key Performance Indicator" or "Kinda Perverse Incentive?" • Leadership Land reader check-in #5

Mar 7

February 2025

Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 4-Dimensional Thinking

When practicing leadership in an unpredictable and un-post-dictable world, it's better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

Feb 28

Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 3-Dimensional Thinking

Revisiting the concept of risk & uncertainty in terms of Impact × Probability × Predictability • Introduction to black swan theory

Feb 21

Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 2-Dimensional Thinking

How to think in terms of impact × probability • When to avoid Russian Roulette and when to play • Examples of risk and uncertainty in business (and what…

Feb 14

Lessons on Reverse Psychology from the Trump Administration

How the Trump administration's Fork in the Road "buyout offer" to federal government employees backfired • Lessons learned and applied to change…

Feb 7

January 2025

Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 1-Dimensional Thinking

What is risk and uncertainty, anyway? • Spectral thinking is better than binary thinking • Fragility, robustness, and anti-fragility vs. risk

Jan 31

How to Discover Secrets in Leadership Land, Part 2

How secrets transform into conventional wisdom • What happens when secrets return to the Unknown Abyss • The secret-seeker’s toolkit

Jan 24

How to Discover Secrets in Leadership Land, Part 1

Using imaginary time travel to study secrets • Inconceivabilia and the Veil of (In)comprehension • Supernatural properties of Cerebrium (crystallized…

Jan 17

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Can't Tell You Secrets

Does "AI" stand for artificial intelligence or artificial ignorance? • AIs are consensus-seekers, not truth-seekers • How leaders can avoid being…

Jan 10

Why Epistemology is Important in Leadership (And How to Apply It)

Knowledge brings success. Anti-knowledge brings failure – or valuable secrets! • Why don't we teach anti-knowledge to new leaders? • Information…

Jan 3

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