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Thoughts on leadership


No Leadership Without a Story
Personal communication, nowadays fashionably called "storytelling", gathering the best people around you and visualising the goal on the...
Sep 253 min read


The Illusion of the Sidelines
Holidays are there, also, to create distance from the daily grind. To take time for yourself and your loved ones, to recover and to...
Sep 32 min read


Summer reading 2025: books about ai, uncertainty, and leadership
For several years now, I've been sending book title suggestions for the winter and summer holidays, and the responses have always been...
Jul 84 min read


Culture Starts at the Top
Organisational culture – or 'corporate culture' – is a much-discussed topic. Various studies underscore its importance. But what exactly...
Jun 261 min read


On Effective Decision-Making Procedures in a Complex World
At the beginning of this month, in April, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, managed to plunge the global economy into a...
Apr 172 min read


AI usage is growing within organisations, but where is the policy?
It is striking that the use of LLMs – large language models – remains unstructured in so many organisations. Or, indeed, not used at all....
Apr 12 min read


To Inherit or Not to Inherit? The Dilemmas of Wealth Succession
Previously, I wrote about families with businesses and issues surrounding succession to next generations. For example, in my newsletter...
Feb 201 min read


Leadership in the age of AI
" Reinventing Organizations " by Frederic Laloux has been featured in my newsletters before. Laloux's vision on the development of...
Jan 232 min read


Books to reflect upon
As the calendar year draws to a close, I am pleased to share a selection of book titles that might be inspiring, engaging,...
Dec 19, 20247 min read
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