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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November 2025

Creative Leadership Today

Creative leadership is an individual and collective practice of deliberately applying established or fostering novel creativity or innovation methods…

Nov 13, 2025 • David Slocum

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October 2025

Two Wars, Two Lenses: The Politics of Historical Analogy and Contested Leadership over Structural Change

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western leaders immediately reached for historical analogies to frame their response. The comparison that…

Oct 30, 2025 • David Slocum

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Crafting Leadership

Leadership isn’t software you install or frameworks you execute or even humans you gather and influence. It is craft you practice.

Oct 19, 2025 • David Slocum

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May 2025

“Time Addiction: A Hidden Paradox Undermining Creative Leadership”

The following thoughts emerged from conversations with Marie Reig Florensa about contemporary preoccupations with time and, specifically, opportunities…

May 22, 2025 • David Slocum

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