
We Called the Fire Department and They Sent the Dalmatian
The leadership development industry, or what I sometimes call the leadership industrial complex, has one great skill. It can package a bunch of nothing as

Lawrence (Larry) Coval didn’t study leadership from the outside; He lived it for nearly four decades. He started at the bottom, worked his way up, and spent years leading large organizations, managing significant revenue, and being accountable for hundreds of people at a time.
ARCANE Leadership Concepts exists for one reason: to fix what the leadership industry got wrong.
Arcane
American
[ahr-keyn]/ ɑrˈkeɪn /
adjective
1. Known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric.
For decades, organizations have spent billions on leadership development that sounds compelling but fails in practice. Engagement is down. Performance is inconsistent. Leaders are overwhelmed. The system isn’t underperforming… it’s broken.
ARCANE IN ACTION
“When I hear the phrase ‘leadership expert,’ I don’t think of professors or psychologists or motivational speakers. And yet, most books and programs come from them. No. I think about people who actually led people under pressure. People with deadlines, projects or revenue on the line. People responsible for jobs. People making hard decisions when there wasn’t a perfect answer. That’s where real leadership knowledge comes from. Those are the people you should be learning from.” – Larry Coval
MisLEd: Why (Almost) Everything We Learned About Leadership Is Wrong and How to Fix It
You’ve read the management books, attended the workshops, and sat through the seminars on effective leadership. Still, your people are disengaged. It’s not your fault—you’ve been misled by an industry that offers the same old clichés in new, shinier packages . . . and the results suck. Until now. Misled isn’t a book of borrowed psychology from so-called armchair experts. Based on Larry Coval’s forty years of experience leading people in technology.

The leadership development industry, or what I sometimes call the leadership industrial complex, has one great skill. It can package a bunch of nothing as

Obsolescence. It comes for everyone…and everything, eventually. For as long as the corporate world can remember, there’s been HR. Human Resources. Even the words sound

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