Shehzaad Shams

Leadership from the Soil, Leadership of the Soul. How one organisation in Pakistan has been nurturing Eclectic Leaders for fourteen years & counting.

No one tells you this about coaching: the people who need it most are often the ones least served by it. There is a term doing the rounds in tech circles right now: vibe coding. The idea is beautifully chaotic. You describe what you want, the AI figures out the how, and something resembling software materialises from the ether. No rigid methodology. No lengthy spec document. Just intention, instinct, and iteration. Coaching has a vibe coding problem too. Except here, the problem runs in the...

The leadership circus is in town. Most of us are still asleep in the audience. And the ringmasters would like to keep it that way. There is an old fable, told across cultures from ancient India to the Persian Sufi poets, about six blind men and an elephant. Each man touches a different part of the animal. The one who finds the trunk declares it a snake. The one gripping the leg insists it is a tree. The one feeling the belly says it is a wall. The tail becomes a rope. The tusk becomes a...