Unusual leadership moments

There are a few and very simple experiments which I would encourage you to do for your personal (leadership) development and the one of your team: I always enjoyed the jovial, mischievous and profoundly humane depth of Finnish “Business Philosopher”, Essa Saarinen. On...

Prevent your top performers to destroy shareholders’ value

Your top performers probably show great results and contrast strongly with the rest of your team. But what if I promised you to increase by 260% the performance of your average subordinates and showed that your highest source of shareholder value destruction are your...

High Power Distance kills Entrepreneurship

Those of you who follow this blog know how much I support the ideas of Innovation & Entrepreneurship “guru”, Prof. Jay Rao from Babson. He has produced two short and excellent clips (displayed and commented on this blog, “If you wish to kill...

What is your cathedral?

In our book, “Engaging Leadership”, I relate to a story that was highly popular in the 80-90’s TQM circles: “It was said that during the Middle-Age, a nobleman was walking down the place where a cathedral was being built. He was puzzled however by the differences in...