Playbook

October 24, 2025
Published by Lycia Harper on October 24, 2025
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Knowing better than the boss

It is clearest in the individual coaching. Huge frustration, uncertainty about staying, disdain, overwhelm. ‘What’s the point of me as a leader if I’m not on top of everything?’ Ah yes, the impossible promise, the grinding drag [...]
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October 15, 2025
Published by Lycia Harper on October 15, 2025
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‘Finally, someone who understands my situation!

Discovering the pattern of triangulation I am shocked in that moment. Does he feel isolated, this warm, thoughtful, accomplished man? I try to hide my reaction but he isn’t looking at me. We have uncorked something and he is talking, […]
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October 2, 2026
Published by Lycia Harper on October 2, 2026
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The pattern of parentification

The archetype is of a child ‘stepping up’ to take care of its parent/s. Some of us have lived this for real but we all know how to ‘do’ parentification. At work, many of us are trained and rewarded for knowing and might feel we contribute only if [...]
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