A Saturday morning habit that helps me be less stupid

Story I recently started a new habit. Every Saturday, I go for a 90-minute walk. The trigger to this was reading a book that a friend recommended to me:  “The Road [...]

December 6th 2019 – Executive Breakfast: „Multidimensional Leadership“

Excelling in the Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world, requires a more agile and inclusive approach to leadership that fosters connection, collaboration and co-responsibility at every level within the [...]

Downwards disloyalty: An insidious threat

Collaboration is the glue that every team or organisation employs to achieve sustainable high performance. Collaboration exists in many forms and guises, some of which are stronger and more effective [...]

Public reprimanding is not a valid leadership tool

Human error and poor judgement are commonplace in business. When someone makes a mistake, it is often tempting to admonish them on the spot. Doing so can give a manager [...]

September 6th 2019 – Executive Breakfast: „Leadership: Avoiding Management Pitfalls“

Good leaders need to understand how to minimise the impact of setbacks, to be aware of common management pitfalls and be able to navigate around them. One poor leadership act [...]

“Men are not disturbed by things, but by their view of things” (Epictetus)

One could also say that people are not disturbed by things, but that they disturb themselves by holding rigid and extreme beliefs about things. Psychologist Albert Ellis said that rigid [...]

Caught in a monkey trap?

Apparently, people in India use a simple trick to capture monkeys. The trapper fastens a piece of cord to a tree. On the other end he attaches a coconut. The [...]

Why do so many leaders fail to delegate effectively

Video:  In this video, I look into the question Why so many people who want to delegate fail to do so effectively? Before I answer this question, let’s look at [...]