What drives the work of the world’s leading management thinkers?
That was the question posed at Thinkers50@BUQuestrom: Passion & Purpose, a live virtual event held at Boston University Questrom School of Business on 20th April 2023.
Co-sponsored by Thinkers50, Passion & Purpose sought to uncover the motivation behind top management thinkers: What inspires their research? What gets them out of bed in the morning? How do they translate their passions into purpose and impact for business?
To challenge the thinkers a little further, each one had just 15 minutes to deliver their idea – including questions from the audience.
Basima Tewfik’s passion is imposter syndrome. A member of the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2022, Tewfik revealed that seven out of 10 working adults have had imposter syndrome thoughts. Even Albert Einstein had them. But, she asked, what if people were successful not despite imposter thoughts, but because of them?
Tewfik argued for renaming imposter syndrome as the imposter phenomenon, and explained that by reframing our imposter thoughts we can become more interpersonally effective.