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The recent Swiss immigration referendum as a study in storytelling
March 13, 2014Though discussion of political issues has often left me cold and bored in recent times, I watched the latest...
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Making any experience transformational
March 6, 2014In March 2013, when I was preparing to speak at EFMD’s annual MBA conference about “creating a positive group...
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Group culture in a classroom: doing things differently
February 28, 2014When I first read Phil Jackson’s book Sacred Hoops in 1996, I was struck by his descriptions of the Chicago Bulls...
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Creating a group culture
February 21, 2014This week, I am teaching a two day seminar to MBA students in Grenoble. As I am working far...
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More thoughts on boredom, creativity, and technology
February 14, 2014I finished the previous post wondering whether the “always on” devices that power our worlds, and that make modern...
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Can boredom really stimulate creativity?
February 7, 2014As I wrote briefly last week, I was fascinated by a concept I discovered recently in an in-flight...
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Reflecting on boredom
January 31, 2014A funny thing happened to me this week on a flight from Detroit to Amsterdam. We were all set...
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Reflecting on reflection, and creativity
January 24, 2014These past 10 days, I have been on the road in Miami and Boston, a bit too busy to...
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Reflections on talent and character
January 17, 2014Sometimes, when I go on a speaking tour, I can get a bit tired from talking and doing interviews...
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The pope’s remarkable stories of inclusion continue, as he takes the church to the streets
January 10, 2014One of the themes of my coaching of leaders and in my seminars for the past 15 years...