The Hidden Patterns of Leadership Under Pressure | Ian Stewart

Why do intelligent, capable, well-intentioned leaders act at their worst under pressure — and what if the answer was a pattern you could learn to see coming?  In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Ian Stewart, former Head of Applied Behavioural Science at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and author of The Hidden Patterns of Leadership: The Mental Models That Shape How We Lead, Team, and Follow.  Ian has watched the same drama play out in different costumes — military academies, government, boardrooms, a sovereign wealth fund — and it comes down to schemas: the hidden assumptions that decide what a leader reaches for when the pressure is on.  Then Andy puts himself on the table. He took Ian’s assessment, came out an Architect-Commander, and gets a live reading of what that pairing does brilliantly and where it gets a leader into trouble.  Tune in to episode 263 to hear why pressure reveals patterns rather than creating them, what an Architect-Commander’s team quietly learns to do instead of pushing back, and why the loyalist, the dissenter, the skeptic, and the bystander are each telling you something.  AndrewTemte.com