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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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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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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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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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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. ...