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The inspirational leadership of Sir Edmund Hillary
December 14, 2009December 13: Last week, I came across an article in the Business Education supplement of the Financial Times. It...
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The concept of “mastery”, and leadership training
December 8, 2009Last week, in response to a comment by John Antonios, I wrote about deliberate practice. As I reflected on...
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More on leadership training and deliberate practice
December 4, 2009I was writing an entry to post this week, but instead of that entry I decided to respond to...
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Natural “gifts”, talent, and leadership training
November 27, 2009Since the question of ‘natural born leaders’ keeps coming back to me from individuals in my corporate seminars and...
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Reflections on Leadership Training
November 20, 2009My plan for the next few weeks, or perhaps months, on this blog is to discuss some of my...
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Favorable reactions to our latest book in the French press
November 17, 2009Co-author Loïck Roche and I have been quite pleased recently about early reactions to our book about leadership and...
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Lévi-Strauss and storytelling
November 13, 2009Last week, Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of my favorite anthropologists, died in Paris at age 100. Lévi-Strauss was a true...
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You can, and should, refuse to accept the context (continued)
November 5, 2009Example 3: A Scandinavian woman studying in France was somewhat dismayed by the attitude some of the people in...