Governance

I came across such an image and it reminded me that this is exactly the kind of leadership I talk about in my trainings – we can’t lead others successfully if we can’t lead ourselves as leaders and what is going on in our inner world. If our focus is only on the external, on […]

Plato formulated such an idea some 2500 years ago, and it seems to me that in many contexts it is time to return to it. Not everyone in power carries power. It is too heavy a burden when the ego is not yet mature enough. Plato spoke of a so-called philosophical king with a love

This image speaks at first glance of a client-agent relationship. Whether that helper is a therapist, mentor, coach or experience counsellor. But in my view, a manager is also a helper. Perhaps the picture is also about the relationship between the manager and the team member. But since we have not taught anyone to communicate

The first temptation is to diagnose (e.g. narcissist) a highly egocentric, aggressive and unemotional leader. Diagnosis, however, is generally not so much a question of acceptance of responsibility as of politeness. But in life, many of us come across leaders who run over people, only highlight their own achievements and direct people to admire themselves

In one of the management training groups, it could be seen that the managers had come together for the training because they had been organised and given no other choice. There was a visible and perceived resistance to yet another management training course, an expectation of the topics to be covered, an attitude of ‘I

I remember about 5 years ago when I started to “take my time”. And the first thing I did was to write down where the time goes – 8 hours I sleep, 8 hours I’m at work, 2-3 hours logistics to work and the day-to-day stuff on top of that. Then I had 2-3 hours