Governance

Time management

From time to time people ask for time management training and since today was another such occasion, I will share my thoughts on the time management problem. I don’t directly offer time management training myself, and the reason is that I think time management training gives people a brief sense that it’s manageable, but mostly […]

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Change and identity

In December’ s Director, I wrote at length about the identity grief associated with change, because I see and believe that every change is a grieving process. Change is usually linked to a change in identity, and identity is our deepest layer, and when it is threatened, it brings up a lot of deep feelings

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What are your strengths?

I’ve often been asked in training and mentoring how to figure out what you like to do and what you could do in life. Of course there are excellent methods and guides for this (e.g. Gallup Strenghts, birth chart, personality tests, human design, IKIGAI, etc.), but over time I’ve developed what I call test questions:

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The success of a manager is measured by the speed of redundancy of his own post.

Leaders are called into their roles with the aim of bringing about development through change and leaving behind a legacy of what I call leadership legacy: a trail in the development of people, the organisation and themselves. The role of the leader is to prepare the organisation for the next stage of development and to

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