Alex Lange

Leaders as Humans

Behaviour and Psychology, Business and Leadership

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Alex is an Executive Coach and Facilitator with GoInnovation, a global consulting and leadership development organization providing executive and life coaching, team building, organizational development, and society-building.

Alex holds a Masters Degree in Health Sciences and has spent over seven years performing neurosurgery.

His areas of interest include emotional intelligence, communication, and bridging cross-cultural differences of business, nations, ethnicities, and people.

Show Notes

Difficulty of people being more human in an increasingly techno-centric world [02:16]

Complex idea of being happy and sad is more human [07:07]

Interconnection between Neurosurgery and Leadership Development [08:18]

Helping people empower one another [11:50]

The concept of Deep Fakes [13:11]

VUCA Leadership [15:44]

A leadership gap – ‘Saying vs. Doing’ [19:00]

Leadership through the lens of Good Design [20:31]

Adult learning by watching, by doing [24:01]

Dynamic Dialogue during meetings [25:57]

Practical ways of creating Dynamic Dialogue [27:56]

Difference between Good and Great Leaders [34:11]

Meeting without an agenda [34:56]

Picking the nuance of body language [36:08]

Work-Life Harmony vs. Work-Life Balance [37:69]

“What kind of a person am I?” – Work-first vs. Family-first [41:30]

Integration between work and life leads to harmony [45:15]

Checking-off a box on job description [47:09]

Adult learning [48:13]

Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset [54:14]

A Framework for being More Human and a Better Leader [57:51]

Becoming Self-Aware and adding a Human Factor to Leadership [01:08:09]

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