Be A Leader with Seneca the Younger

Jul 04, 2019 • 1 Min Read

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be A Leader is a series that looks into the lives of historic, popular and even famous leaders from all walks of life. In episode seven, Roshan Thiran examines the life of Lucius Annaeus Seneca; simply known as Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher.

Find what why he killed himself, the value in which he stood for and the lessons we can learn from his life.

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A senior L&D manager I spoke with recently described her quarterly ritual with weary precision. Every three months, she rewrites the same leadership development deck, the one on giving difficult feedback, polishes the talking points, books a room, and watches a third of the registrants quietly skip the session. The slides are good. The content is sound. And almost nobody finishes the self-paced PDF version she emails afterwards as a "convenient alternative." Her completion data is a graveyard of good intentions. She is not alone, and the problem is not the quality of her material. It is the format.

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