Dr. Shalini Jebasingh, Leadership Scholar and Founder of Eirene Group, reviewing Ronald Heifetz’s "Leadership Without Easy Answers." This review explores how the SCRIBE Framework and value-based leadership can close the gap between current reality and adaptive change. In the opening pages of his book, Heifetz (1994, p. 17) showed that age-old theories of leadership, such as the Trait, Situational, Contingency, and Transactional theories of leadership, may appear to be value-f

Dr. Shalini Jebasingh reflects on growth mindset and abundance thinking in the workplace after an unexpected lesson from a young country-rap artist. Exploring how supportive systems shape resilience, leadership, and fulfillment at work, she examines why sustainable growth rarely happens in isolation and how leaders can cultivate environments where individuals and teams truly thrive.

Under critical stress, leaders with high-values often mistake a temporary state of reduced capacity for a permanent trait flaw. Learn the trait vs. state distinction, how it reduces self-blame, and how the SCRIBE Framework helps restore work functioning.