What can Milan Kundera teach us about leadership and sensemaking? That’s the central question in this episode of the Sense and Signal podcast. Jodah and Dan welcome frequent guests Jesan Sorrells and Zoe Fragou to explore what Kundera – and other novelists – can teach leaders. Topics include leadership lessons from Milan Kundera’s novels, historical amnesia in political leadership and workplace leadership, and the difference between ideology and Imagology and its impact on our sensemaking. And Zoe Fragou shares a story about being canceled by Greek nationalists on TikTok. A valuable podcast for those interested in political and workplace leadership and literature.
MORE ABOUT ZOE FRAGOU
Zoe’ Fragou’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragouzoe/
Zoe Fragou’s blog post “Positive Psychology v. Toxic Positivity” blog post - https://cto.academy/positive-psychology-vs-toxic-positivity/
MORE ABOUT JODA JENSEN
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodah/
MORE ABOUT DAN TARKER
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantarker/
https://www.danieltarker.com
ABOUT JESAN SORRELLS
Jesan Sorrells is the CEO and Founder of HSCT Publishing, LLC.
HSCT is remote-first, video-based, software publishing platform company located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. HSCT seeks to help organizations manage and reduce the impact of workplace conflict, encourage organizational innovation, and increase optimal outcomes around leadership development, conflict management and change management. HSCT leverages content platforms, training, and education via their Leadership Toolbox and LeadingKeys products.
Jesan’s latest book 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership (2022) advances the idea that all problems in all organizations can be solved through the intentional application of effective leadership practices and principles. Leaders who have heard Jesan’s message have changed cultures, changed organizations, and changed their work lives by changing their mindsets, their teams, and their organizations.
Jesan hosts and produces the Leadership Lessons from the Great Books podcast, and previously published Marketing for Peace Builders: How to Market Your Value to a World in Conflict, in 2016 and My Boss Doesn’t Care: 100 Essays Disrupting Your Workplace by Disrupting Your Boss, in April 2019.
