The Panoramic Leader: How Great Leaders See Differently

The useful part

T O make the best decisions, we need to expand our view and think through a wider range of experiences and opinions. Increasing change and complexity require that we get more complete and diverse information and look outside of our usual suspects. In The Panoramic Leader, Cornelia Choe and Marshall Goldsmith say that "panoramic intelligence is about training yourself to see through more than just your own lens.

How it works

• It impacts how we see the world through our outer lens.
• The authors have identified three lenses—inner, outer, and relational—that allow us to see more fully.
• The relational lens gathers the insights we develop internally and shines that light back outward to our stakeholders through our outer lens, expressed in dialogue and leadership.
• This continuous refraction of insight—taking in light and returning it transformed—is what distinguish...

Details worth keeping

The real power is when you move beyond simply noticing others and start to see the world through their eyes, understanding the experiences and beliefs that shape their maps." The lenses we choose to see the world determine the reality we see. The inner lens helps us to gather self-awareness through self-reflection.