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Episode 3 Polymathic Perspective Podcast | Dov Baron

When Systems Lose Coherence Before They Collapse

What if the world isn't collapsing, but losing coherence, and our leaders are mistaking relief for evolution?

Episode Description

What happens before systems collapse?

Not chaos. Not moral failure. Not even bad leadership.

They lose coherence. .

In the first episode of The Polymathic Perspective Podcast, Dov Baron introduces the lens that will define this show: coherence as the invisible regulator beneath power, identity, culture, economics, and leadership. .

Starting with a moment at Davos in January 2026, when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney named what many felt but couldn't articulate, the fading of the rules-based order, Dov examines why the world exhaled. Not in agreement, but in relief. .

This episode is not about politics. It's about emotional regulation at scale.

Dov shows how systems under stress do not seek truth or transformation. They seek stabilization. And why that instinct, while human, quietly prevents real succession. .

Through a polymathic lens, this episode connects:

• Nervous systems

• Identity formation

• Organizational behavior

• Capitalism

• Global geopolitics

Not as metaphors, but as the same pattern playing out at different scales.

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You'll hear why Mark Carney and Donald Trump, despite appearing oppositional, are responding to the same collapse of coherence, one through reassurance, the other through rupture. Different styles. Same function.

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And why neither approach, on its own, produces evolution. .

This is not a call to sides. It's a call to perception.

In This Episode, You'll Explore

• Why systems lose coherence long before they collapse • Why anxiety seeks regulation, not truth • How relief can feel like leadership without being transformation • The difference between stabilization and succession • Why capitalism is opportunistic, not moral, and why that matters • How inclusion, sustainability, and ethics only move when they become legible to markets • Why nostalgia is not a strategy, at any scale • What "identity-level succession" actually means, in plain language • How individuals repeat the same pattern as nations when they outgrow old rules • Why polymathic thinkers see patterns others experience as noise

🎙️ About the Host — Dov Baron

Dov Baron is a globally recognized leadership strategist, Cultural Dyagnistician, bestselling author, and host of The Dov Baron Show and The Polymathic Perspective Podcast.

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For over two decades, Dov has worked with Fortune 500 leaders, elite entrepreneurs, and governments to help them navigate complexity, identity-level change, and the emotional forces that shape culture, power, and performance.

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Known for his uncompromising clarity and ability to surface the hidden emotional logic beneath systems, Dov's work focuses on:

• Leadership under pressure

• Identity, meaning, and belonging