On my flight to Tokyo last year, headed for the 2017 Global Summit of Women, I mulled over the words of Władysław Bartoszewski, [a Polish politician, social activist, journalist, writer and historian,] which I ended up quoting in my speech. English was of course the common language at this international gathering. Conveniently for me, these […]
… 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, […]
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 […]