This episode of the Nearly Invisible podcast is an interview with Gareth Marlow, an exec coach based in Cambridge in the UK.

Show notes: https://nearlyinvisible.com/pod/gareth-marlow-exec-coach

Anyone who knows Gareth knows that just a few minutes of conversation with him will lead to an immediately useful way of seeing something.

In this conversation we talk about

• Humans as complex systems
• How humans are not just individuals
• Whether you, as a leader have the whole picture or not
• Don’t turn up with the answers
• Why bother getting a coach
• Are you really aware of what you’re doing?
• Coach vs nagging 2 year old
• When people don’t understand each other
• Sailing (or thereabouts - as an analogy)
• The difficulty of building mental models at scale
• Testing mental models
• When the mental model meets reality
• Leadership and uncertainty
• The stanford experiment - putting on different uniforms
• Transitioning to management
• When the work is not obvious
• …and many more things

What is the Nearly Invisible podcast?

In this podcast, I explore what disruption - in the business and technological sense - means beyond the simple buzz words of technology and innovation. It has occurred to me for years that when any industry - publishing, music, banking - undergoes disruption, there’s a lot more to it it than one product replacing another.

We no longer go to record shops, we stream. We don’t queue for taxis, we get an Uber. But whole new ways of running our lives emerge.

These are the tip of the iceberg. Underneath, every person involved in the old and the new ways of doing things has had to change something. The experience of disruption is much more than replacing a shop with an app.

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