The silence is broken by a soft click … A shiny golden triangle, split characteristically down the middle, catches the sun rays streaming in through the window. A sheet of paper, slightly rough to the touch, rests on a wooden desk, held down gently by the fingers. The nib hovers over the paper momentarily and […]
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Vox populi, vov dei and other voices
Recently I wrote about the importance of asking the right questions in exercising any kind of leadership. The results of the latest parliamentary elections in Poland – surprising for some, unnerving for others and a reason to celebrate for still others – show how important it is to listen to the questions asked of the […]
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A good question
… is like gold dust. If I were to say what really gives me a buzz, I might well say: a well put question. Not a day goes by that I don’t ask myself questions or questions about whether I have asked the right questions, be it in relation to managing big projects, managing people, […]
Swept under the red tide of the troubled Chinese stock markets data, buried under the volcanic ash spewed out by the financial turmoil in Greece, and starved of oxygen by the climate of uncertainty which prevails in some EU member states groaning under their debt load is other interesting news which doesn’t grab our headlines. […]
I have been following daily the unfolding migrant humanitarian crisis and like many other people I have mixed feelings. I wish they weren’t turned back from Europe’s borders and left to fend for themselves. I am thinking of our aging nations and of the chance these new, dynamic and success-hungry people might open up for […]
I was talking to a friend the other day. He complained a lot. Of course, neither of these two facts is special in itself in any way. But his face, our conversation and his complaining have lodged themselves firmly in my mind. So I thought I must get it out of my system here. A […]
I look at my fridge … ‘You’re so dumb,’ I say of it in my thoughts with affection. ‘Even the ice maker and all your freezer programmes don’t make you half-intelligent.’ And my washing machine? Blissfully open to all the errors one can make washing things. Just recently it washed my jumper so the jumper […]
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SHOCK WAVE AMPLITUDE
Here is one to restore your confidence and a feeling of safety. You wouldn’t drive without a seatbelt, would you? Especially when you’re driving on a bumpy road. That’s why I got annoyed at Martin Wolf of Financial Times. He got me so annoyed in fact that, despite my firm resolution not to comment on […]
I had seen too much in life to believe the pictures on the Internet … … and yet the pictures mesmerized me. I would close my eyes on the plane and I’d be looking at swimming pools where the water surface appeared to meet a cliff’s edge, set in hillsides covered with a tropical jungle […]
I have already written about the responsibility of leaders in the face of the uncertainty of future events, that is, something we have to deal with in business management daily. I think about this problem quite often, analyzing my own decisions and their consequences for whole groups and for individuals. And when I think that […]