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Leonard A. Schlesinger

Leonard A. Schlesinger

American educator and former president of Babson College

Oct 19, 2026

17:37
Yeah.
17:37
This one focuses on another challenge, which is entirely new for our teams, which is in this strange team, figuring out how they're gonna organize themselves among the six people to present to the client organization and how they're gonna do it in an influential way.
17:53
So in this case, the FIELD team is working with a restaurant group called Fatto Bene in Buenos Aires to present their market research findings to two senior leaders that they discover over time have very, very different styles.
18:06
The first leader, Santi Benitez, is energetic, experiential, and very present moment focused.

5 MINS LATER

23:40
Yeah.
23:41
They dissipated from the curriculum.
23:42
They dissipated from our student body.
23:44
And the problems did not go away.
3:02
And what could go wrong, right?
3:04
I mean, and everything that could go wrong does go wrong, and so it's under conditions of real stress because we are also expecting them to finish research in the field over a four or five-day period and present a full set of recommendations to the client organization before they leave the country after a weekend.
3:22
So over ten intense days, we are continuously putting these teams under stress.
3:28
It's incredibly ambiguous by design.
3:31
We give them incomplete data.
3:32
We give them the context of cultural differences.
3:36
They have very, very tight timelines, and it's designed to mirror the complexity that we believe that leaders face in today's modern organizations.

20 MINS LATER

23:21
Yeah.

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