20: Humanising Organisations with Gianpiero Petriglieri

Gianpiero is an internationally renowned thinker in the field of
leadership and learning in the workplace. He brings a clinical
lens to his research and teaching, which he begun acquiring while
training as a medical doctor and a psychiatrist, and refined in
two decades of coaching, consulting, teaching, and researching
people’s working lives. 

At the heart of this conversation is the idea that humanising
organisations requires revisiting our conceptions of leadership.
‘Caring,’ Gianpiero argues, needs to be put at the core of
leadership thinking and practice, rather than kept at its
periphery. He shares the idea that ‘we often make an instrumental
argument for making humanistic organisations, and every time we
do that, humanism dies from 100 cuts”.  

Gianpiero invites us to consider how the current challenges that
many organizations experience, such as a struggle with innovation
or inclusion, might be side effects of our devotion to
dehumanized models of organizing.  The notion of alignment,
for example, often serves as a cover for the pursuit of
conformity, which in turn undermines the desire for diversity.
Among other wide-ranging topics, our conversation reflects on
identity and what it means to be cosmopolitan in world that is
struggling with helping people belong to a place and also be
engaged world citizens. Enjoy this wonderful podcast! 



Bio
Gianpiero is associate professor of organizational behaviour at
INSEAD. His award-winning research and teaching focus on what it
means, and what it takes, to become a leader. He is particularly
interested in the development and exercise of leadership in the
age of "nomadic professionalism," in which people have deep bonds
to work but loose affiliations to institutions, and authenticity
and mobility have replaced loyalty and advancement as hallmarks
of virtue and success.  Gianpiero's research has appeared in
leading academic journals such as the Administrative Science
Quarterly , Academy of Management Annals , Academy of Management
Learning & Education.  He also writes essays regularly
for the Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. His
work has been featured in a range of media including the BBC ,
Financial Times , The Economist , The Guardian , New York Times ,
Wall Street Journal , Washington Post , Quartz , Vox , Le Figaro
and El Pais , and he is listed among the 50 most influential
management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 .