Gianpiero Petriglieri

When others assume you don’t care, they can easily reject your proposal or your presence with the pretense of style. But once they know you do care, and share a similar intent, even your critiques become an expression of that care.

Showing care requires naming a shared intent… It requires acknowledging that you are asking them to sacrifice old habits and norms they have valued, to … [ Read more ]

Gianpiero Petriglieri

Leadership, at its core, is an argument with tradition. As a leader, you are always relating to a tradition that you are trying to preserve, expand, or change. That means, a priori, that you must care about the tradition. Or, more precisely, you must care about what the tradition is trying to accomplish.

Gianpiero Petriglieri

A revolution is any change that alters the power structure. This [Fourth Industrial Revolution] is not a revolution. It’s a reformation, because it bolsters the existing power structure. The rhetoric of revolution is a cover-up.

Why the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ Looks Much Like the First

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, then, retains some of the exploitative elements that characterised the very first. What’s more, the very term “industrial revolution” has always been something of a misnomer, according to Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour.