The moment you finally take a break, the questions tend to come up:– Is this job for me at all?– Do I really want to go back to it?– Am I really working for 11 months to take 3 weeks off? Sometimes, at the end of the holiday, there’s plenty of energy to go back.Sometimes, […]
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Sitting on the terrace, sun beating down, no email, no meeting. Just be. And feeling bored. It is in boredom that new ideas are born. We don’t read emails, we … wood magazines. We don’t plan projects, we notice clouds. And suddenly… an idea comes. A feeling. A new view of ourselves, a new perspective
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As it is customary in Estonia, Midsummer and Christmas are the 2 dates by which everything should be settled and in order – including strategies and goals. Just as around 70% of changes fail to work, around the same proportion of strategies do not materialise, according to various studies. No, it’s not about knowledge, action
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Most leadership debates revolve around the same themes: motivation, accountability, performance, commitment, change management, relationships, effectiveness, strategy – in other words, leading the lives of others. Time shows that simply talking about them soon means repeating it all again – the same training, different trainers; the same inconclusive results, new strategies to meet targets. But
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In the world of management, it is no longer enough to teach future (top) leaders to delegate, manage change, deliver results, conduct development meetings and use strategic tools to outperform competitors. The next level of leadership starts with the subconscious, not with strategy and management techniques. A leader’s most important management tool is his or
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We talk about work-life balance in many companies, but why are team dinners at 18.30? Maybe why team-bonding happens when someone’s child falls asleep or a partner is looking forward to a little time together in the evening? I’ve worked with several teams to do things like Christmas lunches or different breakfasts, so that team
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Suvi. Everything should be light, airy, holiday-weary…But you’ve got a desk full of stuff. Because the parties are resting – you’re replacing, covering, reacting, producing results for several. Because you think that’s the way it should be and that’s normal, it’s always been that way. Does it really have to? 📌 It’s very OK that
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This is a phrase I’ve heard from 5 customers recently. I understand that and sometimes agree that it is too early. I also understand that looking at leadership in a whole new way – not as a set of techniques, but as a consequence of the inner world of the person – can seem daunting.
This is a quote I heard one of the participants quote in turn. I was left thinking that it is a very true description of the mental heaviness that is rife in organisations. Mental exhaustion does not just come from workload. Indeed, it often arises primarily because people are not creating. Doesn’t create something that
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Looking at promotion from a slightly homoerotic angle, as Fridays do, one can see that promotion is often simply a matter of rewarding hard work with even more work. When we talk about promotion, it could mean more meaning, freedom and joy. But often, promotion means more influence and therefore more responsibility, more meetings, more
