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When leaders strive to be the "smartest person in the room", they create systems that depend on their heroic efforts rather than on distributed capability, workplace thought leaders warn.

In Full Stack Human, Dara Simkin and Tane Hunter – a leading voice in play at work, and a systems scientist, respectively – explore how a leader's "code" can be "rewritten", and why it has to be, for them to thrive in today's work environment.

This requires leaders to not only understand the "frontend" aspects of being human, but the "backend" processes as well, they say.

"We're living through what economists call a 'polycrisis', what environmentalists call the Anthropocene and what we call the Age of 'Artificial Insanity'," the authors say.

Traditional leadership isn't fit for purpose, they argue, but a "fundamental shift" is underway...