To Thine Own Self Be True: The Paradox of Authenticity

The way we think about authenticity poses a real danger to our capacity to grow and learn according to professor Herminia Ibarra of the London Business School. She teaches and researches on those “what got you here won’t get you there” moments. These are the moments when whatever made you successful in the past won’t make you successful going forward. And whatever made you successful in the past may even get in the way of your future success. What’s tricky about the transition is not that the new skills required are difficult to learn, it’s that they’ve often…