When democracy depends on our leadership attitude!

 “Tyranny is the only alternative to strong, performing autonomous institutions. Tyranny substitutes one absolute boss for the pluralism of competing institutions. It substitutes terror for responsibility. It does indeed do away with the institutions, but only by...

Context Leaders change the rules of the game

January 1st, whilst everyone home was recovering from their festive night, I came across an interesting clip from Ernesto Sirolli, a strong believer that NGO’s get it wrong because they seek to lead from the front and behave as “Content Leaders” towards those they...

Let us be the true Heroes of 2017!

2016 leaves 2017 and ourselves confronted to many challenges, from Aggressions, Bombardments, Crisis, Desertification, Exclusion, Fighting, Guerrilla, Hunger, Isolationism, Job destruction, Kidnappings, child Labour, Malnutrition, Nationalism, Oligarchies, Pollution,...

Strong Content Leaders get compliance, not commitment!

I know I have shown Leonhard Bernstein’s clip twice before on this blog but I would like you to put yourself at the place of a highly gifted and professional musician in an Opera or even better a symphonic orchestra led by him or Ricardo Muti, another glorious and...
Teaching an ice hockey goalie to dance

Teaching an ice hockey goalie to dance

In my youth, I played ice hockey as a goal-tender. My school team and I even ended-up Swiss Champions of the private schools. Every training session saw me lose several kilos in sweat, due to the heavy weight (up to 20 kilos) of equipment, needed to protect us from...