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Obama as the “great convener”
August 25, 2011A second point I found interesting in “The Great Convener” piece by David Brooks (New York Times, June 27)...
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JFK and the myth of the heroic leader
August 18, 2011In “The Great Convener”, an opinion piece that appeared in the New York Times on June 27, columnist David...
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European identity
August 4, 2011The following “guest” post is from Eduardo, our MBA student, friend and supporter. Here, he questions whether Europe can...
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On stories, meaning, and “losing the plot”
July 26, 2011As a student of personal stories, I have long been fascinated by the British expression that an individual has...
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Personal stories, identity and meaning…some diverse voices
July 19, 2011In the previous entry, I wrote that the telling of our personal stories is part of our quest for...
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Personal stories and meaning
July 14, 2011At the leadership seminars I gave in Ecuador at the end of June, participants were quite interested about how...
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Storytelling
July 5, 2011Last week, I traveled to Ecuador to present the Leadership Workshop portion of the High Potentials Program of Harvard...
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The stories that keep us grounded
June 22, 2011Recently, I read an interesting article by Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic and now a professor at Harvard...
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Life these days
June 12, 2011Since I am in the mist of a busy week in the US, with little time to seat for...
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In organizations, leaders are less able to use storytelling to manipulate
May 30, 2011If any virtue taken to excess can become a vice, storytelling is no exception. As I have written here...