3 Unconventional Leadership Lessons from Psychology

Full disclosure: I’m not a psychologist. My insights are based on my conversations with the people who are, as well as soul-searching, observations, experiences, and my own successes and struggles in human relationships. Over the course of my career, I watched people dissolve in front of my eyes under the impact of poor leadership. To no surprise, these organisations struggled to stay solvent. I also experienced thriving, empowering and inspiring environments. Those became leaders in their industry. We like to think that we should separate emotionality from our careers. There is no such thing. In an organisation, we are a tribe. We are all there to survive as a collective. The success of this tribe is reliant on the quality of human connections within. If there is one thing leaders need to understand, it’s precisely that. The issue is, not many do. The basis of human connection is emotional understanding. But talking about emotionality at work is deemed strange, unacceptable, unproductive and wrong. We opt for ignoring the problem once human emotionality shows up. It’s uncomfortable. We see it as an attack. We don’t know what to do. It stirs our fears. <a href="https://theninalazic.medium.com/3-unconventional-leadership-lessons-from-psychology-f642f22c8261">Read More</a>