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Becoming an Experience Leader: How to Outpace Commoditization in the 21st Century

Your leadership skills are being commoditized — what the experience economy teaches leaders about staying differentiated.

June 24, 2024·36:55

Are you paying attention to the rate at which your skills as a leader are being commoditized?

Tim and Junior put a new spin on Joseph Pine’s 1998 article, The Experience Economy, drawing a parallel between an economy’s differentiation-and-commoditization cycle and the shelf life of a leader’s skills. The problem: many 21st-century leaders still run agrarian, industrial, and service-era leadership methods in an experience economy — and their organizations bleed talent and stifle innovation as a result.