Leadership is Political | Part 3: The White Man Archetype
In this episode, Chisom examines the workplace archetype that shapes who is seen as leadership material and who is treated as a problem. She explores how the same behaviours are rewarded or punished depending on race, gender, class, and proximity to the organisational default, revealing that what looks like perception is, in fact, a system of power.
With Chisom Udeze, Solo
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Show Notes
In this episode, Chisom looks at the archetype most workplaces are designed for. The same behaviour, ambition, directness, dissent, refusal to conform, is coded differently depending on who performs it. One person’s vision is another person’s attitude problem, and the line between the two follows race, gender, class, and proximity to whatever the organisation treats as its default. Chisom examines why the coding is not a perception problem but a power problem, how it determines who is developed and who is disciplined, and what it means that the same pattern operates in society, where the same dissent makes one person a statesman and another a threat to stability.