Leadership as a Second Language

I'll just fix it myself.

Walk me through how you'd approach it.

Translated from Specialist into Leader.

Most of us learn leadership the way adults learn a language: late, mid-conversation, and with an accent we can hear in ourselves. These are notes on becoming fluent in a new version of yourself, inside systems that weren't built for it.

By Saeed Sabeti, a leadership coach who spent sixteen years teaching English as a second language.

Writing

  1. Field Note 1 Why I Call It a Second Language Sixteen years of teaching English to adults taught me what new leaders are really going through. They aren't failing. They're translating.