What Is True Authentic Leadership?

The February cover story of Harvard Business Review, "The Authenticity Paradox," by Professor Herminia Ibarra, eloquently described how authenticity can actually inhibit our ability to evolve, to expand beyond our comfort zone and, ultimately, to adapt to new challenges. While companies have encouraged leaders to discover and promote their "true-self" as a way to restore trust in management and to increase employee engagement, Herminia proposes leaders empirically try multiple versions of their ...