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Leadership moments in the events of everyday life
April 3, 2014In my teaching and coaching for the past two decades, I have often emphasized the concept that leadership begins...
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The power of narrative in politics, as seen in the Swiss referendum
March 20, 2014In the previous entry, we looked at the recent referendum in Switzerland, where the people voted to require the...
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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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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...
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John F. Kennedy and stories of identity
January 4, 2014In November, I did a quick stop-over in the US on my way back to Amsterdam from Argentina. ...
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The remarkable stories of inclusion continue
December 27, 2013Again this week, I caught myself thinking that I was writing a bit too much about Pope Francis and...
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Telling the stories of inclusion that convince those within
December 20, 2013When one considers an enormous task such as implementing change in an organization as widespread and traditional as the...
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Pope Francis’ extraordinary stories of inclusion
December 13, 2013One of the remarkable elements I have seen in the pope’s stories for the church’s future is the extent...