Abandon Vision With Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD Professor

When you ask “what makes a leader?” you will hear back, almost immediately, “vision”.

Show us the way! Shine the light! “Without vision, the people perish” or so it’s written...

But, perhaps not. What if “vision” was overrated ... and that another leadership behaviour was shown to be much more important?

Today I’m speaking to Gianpiero “GP” Petriglieri, Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD, Europe’s preeminent business school. A recent article of his on HBR.org laid down the gauntlet: vision is overrated. Trying “holding” instead.

In our conversation GP and I dig into the dangers of vision, and the dangerous story that many visions hold; what he means exactly by “holding” and its two different components; a favourite model of mine, Karpman’s Drama Triangle; and why we shouldn’t think of “holding” as being soft, because of the importance of challenge in this concept.

You can meet GP at www.gpetriglieri.com and on Twitter at @gpetriglierito say hello.

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