We’re taught that skills are the safest investment a career can make: the more you accumulate, the more secure you are. But leadership keeps proving that logic incomplete. The executives who navigate genuine complexity aren’t the ones with the longest list of competencies — they’re the ones who have changed how they think, not just what they know.
In this article, an executive coach and practitioner-scholar draws on constructivist-developmental psychology to explain why leadership growth rarely comes from a classroom, and rarely from four decades of doing the same thing well. He identifies five habits shared by leaders who can sit with complexity rather than rush to resolve it: leaning into tension instead of fixing it, listening before speaking, holding multiple truths at once, surrounding yourself with people unlike you, and doing the inner work.
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