“Out of sight, out of mind” It is easy to forget about other people who we are not seeing, or who we haven’t seen in a while. I’ll give you one example from my recent travels. As you know, every time you are about to aboard a plane, there comes...
That things are speeding up is nothing new for anyone, but the rate of change is increasing quite dramatically. In a previous post, I described the process that I use to publish on this newsletter, and if you may remember, I try to keep a backlog of articles, because...
Europeans do things differently. We know that. The simplest things. How they hold their silverware, the clothes they wear, they even drink alcohol unapologetically. But there is one thing that they do differently that just fascinates me: the way they teach kids to...
It is quite annoying to walk with only one shoe. If you clap with one hand, you will not make much noise, and if you resort to eat with just one chopstick, you’ll probably get hungry. A similar principle plays in most of our lives, and leaders must understand...
While working with organizations, I have experienced how good, reliable workers can become jaded by actions that the leadership takes. Often times it happens that organizations -if they are doing things right- go through spectacular spurts of growth. In those periods,...
We already experienced the ugly side of things, the conspiracies, the half-truths. It is really hard to know what or who to believe. Bit this has given us the skills to dig deeper, to uncover what is really going on, and the resources are almost unlimited. Information...
