This sentence was part of my father's vocabulary, who passed away earlier this year. Extraordinary things have happened to all of us this...

What has become clearer to you in one year? Over the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to listen to many leaders, managers and e...

The word 'crisis' in Chinese is composed of two characters: 危机 The first one, 'danger', symbolizes a man on the edge of the precipice. Th...

👿 Sailing in normal conditions allows some mistakes without consequences. Yet, in rough seas, every mistake can send the team overboard....

👿 Leaders are humans full of emotions. These emotions serve as both a driving force and a signal. 👿 In times of crisis, they are exacer...

👿 A leader is not a coach, but sometimes s/he needs to become one. 👿 Coaching is one of the 6 available leadership styles and in some ...

👿 Are people less productive when they work from home! 👿 I recently heard business leaders conclude: 'we have seen a decrease in produc...

👿 Sometimes, the overall inefficiency of a system results from the accumulation of many tactical faux pas. This happens for example wit...

👿 Paul(ine) is a victim of her preferences and so are her teams. 👿 By preference, we mean two different things. First, what we like to ...

👿 Paul (or Pauline) is absorbed by his business. That said, his employees consider him absent. He only 'comes down to the arena' when th...

👿 John is a brilliant leader. Not that he is the best expert in his field - he is surrounded by experts. But he has this talent for insp...

Back home, a new life began. I wanted to walk, run, move, act, lie, sleep as before. But my body would call me to order. 'It will take yo...

The food was bland, the day was flat. The only exciting part of the day was when my wife or one of my daughters would visit me - I was al...

I woke up at night, sweating, I couldn't move. I called the nurse. Courageously, she rolled me from one side to the other and changed my ...

I woke up in a dark room. My eyes opened and stopped on a clock. The needle pointed at one. I suddenly remembered that I was in a hospita...

As I was lying on the scanner, the doctor came up to me to announce that they had detected an issue that required immediate transfer to a...

In my last post, I promised to come back to you soon. Eight weeks after my operation, I have almost completely recovered physically, and ...

Dear readers, I nearly died and I am so blessed to be able to write to you again. Thousands of you have followed me weekly and shared ide...

As a leader, you control two joysticks. The Results joystick. They are measured in market shares, revenue growth, margin, admission rate,...

Lockdown forced us to stop and reflect on our lives. Sometimes, this has led to profound life changes or at least to good resolutions. Now...