Judgment After Visibility: Creative – and Countercultural – Leadership in the Platform Era

Across four previous articles (summarized here: Slocum, 2026), I have argued that hyperconnected, data-driven, and algorithmically governed platforms…

Mar 26 • David Slocum

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What Does It Mean — and How — to Lead from the Heart?

We warmly invite you to join our next Creative Leadership Hub webinar on what it truly means to lead from the heart.

Mar 20 • Akin Duyar

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Metaskills for Today’s Executives: Building the Capabilities that Outlast Change

By David Slocum & Sofian Lamali February 2026

Mar 3 • David Slocum

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February 2026

From Orality to Visibility

How Today’s Media Environment is Quietly Redefining Leadership

Feb 21 • David Slocum

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From Judgment to Visibility: How Platforms Are Quietly Redefining What Leadership Means

Across four articles, written between March 2025 and February 2026, I have published more than 15,000 words examining how hyper-connected, data-centric…

Feb 19 • David Slocum

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From Skills to Metaskills: Building Capabilities that Outlast Change

A Thunderbird School of Global Management live webinar Tuesday, February 24, 12:00 Noon Phoenix/MST | 8:00 PM Paris/CET | 11:00 PM Dubai/GST

Feb 18 • David Slocum

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How Digital Platforms Have Rewired Leadership Discourse – and Reshaped Leadership Practice

The following post continues my consideration of how today’s digital and data-driven platform media shape our leadership thinking and practice.

Feb 5 • David Slocum

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January 2026

5 Reasons to Be Against Better Leadership Lists

In an age of endless social media scrolling and algorithmic content optimization, the proliferation of leadership listicles, bulleted posts, and…

Jan 29 • David Slocum

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What McKinsey Gets Right (and Wrong) about Human Skills in the AI Age

Reflections on Aspiration, Judgment, and Creativity

Jan 12 • David Slocum

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Crafting Leadership - David Slocum (read aloud)

Jan 9 • David Slocum

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Top 10 Creative Leadership Books of 2025

While I’ve been assembling Top 10 lists of Creative Leadership Books for more than a decade, three issues challenged my doing so in 2025.

Jan 4 • David Slocum

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December 2025

The Algorithmic Tyranny of the Aspirational Average Leader

Popular discourse surrounding leadership has become thoroughly mediated by digital platforms, social media, and AI.

Dec 21, 2025 • David Slocum

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