Power Platitudes

Top 5 Clichés To Avoid in Leadership Content

The field is overflowing with truisms and vapid feel-good storytelling

Alex Steullet
8 min readAug 1, 2021

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It wouldn’t be an article about leadership clichés without this fine gentleman. Cropped from a photo by the excellent bruce mars on Unsplash

Of all the topics I regularly write about, leadership is perhaps the most frustrating. The business world is rife with leaders convinced they have valuable insight to share. In my quest for smart and engaging…

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Alex Steullet

Writing to get better. Tokyo-based polyglot with a degree in human rights. Travel | Humor | Language | Society. Find me anywhere @alexstwrites.