The Intentional Manager
Luca Foppoli, ElinaBecause reacting is not a strategy.
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The Intentional Manager is for the corporate professional who is tired of surface-level advice — each issue works to understand the why behind strategy, leadership and execution, from first principles.
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Stop fighting the behaviour. Start seeing the story.
This article is a collaboration between Luca Foppoli of The Intentional Manager and Elina of Leadership Capability System. We wanted to take a pattern most managers will recognise and argue opposite sides, before looking for a way through....
The protector
Part of The Intentional Leadership Arc, a series on leadership published every other Sunday in The Intentional Manager.
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I was just trying to help.
Jenny Allen writes The Bootleg Manager and the two of us have argued before: she works from the inside out, telling you how a hard situation felt as it landed on her, while I start from first principles.
This piece is one of those: she ga...
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The Intentional Manager — strategy, leadership and execution for the professional who wants to lead with intention, not just effort.
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For the corporate professional who could do more and does not accept being molded into a mindless cog. On leadership, strategy and execution. Systems thinker, engineer, husband, father, dog "owner".
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