Governance

Leadership doesn’t usually fail because people don’t know what to do. It fails because many leaders haven’t faced themselves.

Unresolved fear, the need for approval, and avoidance don’t disappear at work, but they scale. Organizations don’t mirror strategies, but they mirror the inner state of those in power. That’s why another strategy day rarely helps. What helps is taking time for honest, deep reflection to face inner goals, fears, and resistance. This is often […]

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When burnout, anxiety and emotional numbness become normal, it’s no longer about coping skills or stress tolerance.

It’s about a management model that keeps people in permanent survival mode. Wellbeing programs don’t fix a broken system. They just help people tolerate it a little longer. Organizations change only when leaders stop calling dysfunction “normal”and find the courage to question a model that moves from one survival crisis to the next. If this

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The trainer’s dilemma – whether to be boldly honest with the client or merely meet expectations?

I’m invited to work in organisations on quite similar topics – trust and accountability in the leadership team, collaboration, values, governance, etc. And more often than not, the conversation will lead to the fact that the topic being discussed is not the real “topic”. For example, if we are talking about trust, the issue is

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Again with the development debates – are we measuring development or are we developing without measuring?

Those of you who have followed me for a long time will know that I am increasingly questioning practices that have been in place for many years, because of the need to practice. Because the more I see organisations, the clearer it becomes that many of the classic management practices no longer work, even though

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Staying alive?

Recently, a client described surviving through his coping strategies. Through not letting people get too close because people might leave, betray. So it is safer not to get too deeply attached to someone. He has had experiences in his life where loved ones and confidants have disappeared from his life or betrayed him. Maybe it

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