GA 640 | Optimistic Fear with Cornelia Choe
About this episode
Cornelia Choe discusses the importance of questioning leadership mental maps in a world of continuous change.
Most leaders think their biggest risk is making the wrong call. Cornelia Choe argues the real danger comes earlier, when a leader stops questioning the mental map they’re using to make calls in the first place. In her book The Panoramic Leader , co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith, Cornelia builds a case that continuous change has made the old leadership playbook obsolete. The world stopped being a predictable highway, and too many leaders are still staring at the rearview mirror. In this episode you’ll learn: What the quote “Achievement is all about me, but leadership is all about them” really means (3:33) Why continuous change broke the old model of leadership (6:49) How the GEM method helps leaders navigate constant change (9:52) Why G must come before E in the GEM sequence (11:31) How panoramic leadership builds on go-and-see (13:15) What mapping your evolving perspective actually looks like in practice (17:44) Why success is the most dangerous place to stop learning (23:25) What optimistic fear is and why courage alone is not enough (26:25) Three questions that pull leaders out of autopilot (29:40) “One of the greatest dangers we can have is to…
People in this episode
Host: Ron Pereira
Guest: Cornelia Choe
Topics covered
- leadership
- continuous change
- mental mapping
- GEM method
- panoramic leadership
- learning
- optimistic fear
Keywords
- leadership
- mental map
- GEM method
- continuous change
- optimistic fear
- learning
- panoramic leadership
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Panoramic Leader
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