
This is Part II of my critique of the "Let Them Theory". You can find Part I in the previous post of this Newsletter. Today we widen the lens to interrogate the (very weak) structural foundations of the book and, more in general, expand a number of consideations to the self-help genre. We also sketch an alternative, different path, one that rejects disengagement and dares to embrace the un...

Over the past few months, Mel Robbins' The Let Them Theory has been inescapable. It drifts through coaching sessions, dominates podcasts, and saturates social media feeds; a neatly packaged promise to deliver peace in two words. Stop resisting. Stop controlling. Stop caring so much about what others do, and you’ll finally be free.
But it didn’t take long to sense that beneath the glossy minim...

Something subtle, but deeply consequential, has happened to the word leadership. In our collective push for emotionally intelligent organizations, we’ve quietly traded the directional power of leadership for its affective shadows. Leadership today is often measured not by where it takes us, but by how it feels to be in the room. Tone has replaced trajectory.
This shift isn’t baseless. It’s r...
(almost) Everything is Context

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