"The head of Israel's military secret services resigned. Reason: he was held responsible, and will have felt responsible, for not having prevented the Hamas attack on 7th October. (...) The error, which is not unprecedented in the history of conflicts...
“The artist Joana Vasconcelos recently stated that “you have to have the courage to make mistakes”. And she confessed: “Error has to be greater than success. Almost all of my most successful pieces started with big mistakes”. This confession contains an...
"To understand why the world can be (is) a dangerous place, it is essential to pay attention to the role of destructive leadership. However, this observation is often biased. We overestimate the performance of the people who lead – and we do not always...
“A predominantly results-oriented leader may feel “heartburn” when dealing with someone who is very concerned with rules, principles, procedures and processes – as they interpret these “details” as inefficiencies and obstacles to the search for results...
"In some organizations, fragility and suffering are seen as distracting factors, obstacles to productivity, efficiency and results. There are moments, however, when leaders become aware of collective fragility and the need to take care of people to take...
«Putin, in league with Kirill I, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, illustrates the phenomenon well. The Russian dictator has used the name of God to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Kirill, in turn, has endorsed barbarism. He even described...
“Leadership matters for the lives of organizations, the people who work in them, and communities. They chart directions. They play a significant role in people’s commitment, stimulating relationships of cooperation and trust, and in teams’ ability to...
“P.S. The demonization of private management is as “ideological” as the demonization of public management. Good and bad management are a virtue and vice of any type of organization. For anyone who has doubts about the tragedies that poor private...
«The “Techno-optimist Manifesto”, written by multimillionaire Marc Andreessen, is mandatory reading. Not because of his virtue but because of his dangerous messianism. The Manifesto begins by warning us about lies like: “We’re told to be angry, bitter...
"When faced with a new subject and felt the need to sensitise European leaders, Delors adopted the virtuous method that Aristotle would have classified as phronesis or practical wisdom. He brought together intellectuals and experts for a weekend...