Is Leadership Experience Becoming a Liability?
About this episode
Sara Loncka discusses how traditional leadership experience may no longer be effective in navigating current disruptions.
Most leaders think they’re navigating another wave of disruption. Sara Loncka argues we’re in something far more unsettling: discontinuity. The old assumptions don’t just need tweaking—they’ve stopped working altogether. Past experience, the thing leaders have spent entire careers building confidence around, is suddenly less reliable as a guide for the future. And that’s creating a strange kind of friction: teams keep pushing harder with familiar playbooks while the terrain underneath them qu...
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Host: David Rice
Guest: Sara Loncka
Topics covered
- leadership
- disruption
- discontinuity
- team dynamics
- experience
Keywords
- leadership experience
- disruption
- discontinuity
- team dynamics
- future guidance
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