Image courtesy of Pixabay. A.I. generated portrait of Albert Einstein René Higuita will forever remain a legend of football (soccer), like Bobby Charlton, Maradona, Messi, Pelé, Lev Yashin and several others. In the 90’s, Higuita was the goalkeeper of the best...

The heroic leader carrying the team on their shoulders As far as I remember, all the movies, books and stories of my childhood were filled with heroic figures who, through their superior courage, determination, intelligence and strength had conquest an undisputed...

Each time Nick McRoberts, a long time companion in the Enablers Journey and a brilliant conductor and composer or I (more modestly;) tell the story of those two highly respected artists (conductors Riccardo Muti and Leonard Bernstein), showing these tokens of their...

What is the diversity of thinking within a company anyway? How can companies truly create the space for inclusion and acceptance of truly different ways of thinking?  Dr Scott E. Page from the University of Michigan, and author of ‘The Diversity Bonus’, summarises his...

High Tech companies have collectively laid 95’000 human beings off in 2022, following CNBC and, Tech-Co, claims that to date, the same have sent home another 84’479 people since the start of 2023. As 18th century French essayist, Philippe Néricault, used to say: “la...

Some of you may have noticed that the Enablers Community has been enriched by a lot of new members, recently. My pride is that we act in the field of Academy, Consultancy and Development and there isn’t a single academic, trainer nor consultant amongst us! But each...

Those amongst you who know me, will confirm that I am a pessimistic idealist. I made mine the title of Intel founder’s book, Andy Grove: “Only the Paranoids Survive”… I nevertheless started the year 2023 with reasons to hope. One of the biggest question that we,...

Last week, I shared the summary of the book, “Ten Game Changers for Disruptive Leaders” that we, at the Enablers Network, are about to start writing collectively. By the way, we are starting the process of identifying Arts, Business, Community and Sports Leaders...

When the Covid wave hit the planet, it rapidly became obvious that, on top of being a lethal health crisis which would kill millions of us (I lost my mentor and Godfather to it as well as a friend in Brazil), it would also have a disastrous impact on Economy and… it...

I recently asked Chat GPT what it considered to be the best, between Cognitive Diversity and Polarisation. Its reply was: “Cognitive diversity refers to the variety of perspectives, knowledge, and abilities that different individuals bring to a group or organisation....

A recent article I wrote, “When the Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions”, attracted a lot of interest and good suggestions, which reinforced my conviction that we are heading the 180° wrong way by focusing on Diversity at all cost, if we are serious about...

… and the Highway Patrol becomes an active part of the problem… On my left sits Ji-Yong Kim. He has 88 subordinates at his disposal, to get the best done. Far from denying or tolerating differences between them, he encourages them! He is delighted when all of them...

Yesterday, I came across an interesting post by Serge Golay, mentioning an article published by a consultancy with an inspiring name, Corporate Rebels. The post refers to a Harvard Business Review article, dated March 2022, mentioning a study concluding that, if the...

Nine months ago, I wrote an article on the latest Leadership topic “à la mode”: The Great Resignation. If you want to be up to date nowadays, the new theme is “Quiet Quitting”. A Friend recently sent me an article of Gallup, relating to it. Whereas, in the Great...

I came across this amazing picture of Brazilian Journalist, Lola Ferreira, showing far-right Brazilian President Bolsonaro's supporters, "meeting" underprivileged people in Rio de Janeiro on September 7th. It struck me as symbolising the huge challenge ahead of us. I...

This is the last of a series of articles on the M.B.T.I. (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) preferences. The first was a reminder of the four Temperaments (SJ, SP, NT,NF)and the second was drawing connections between Leadership styles and M.B.T.I. preferences. This last...

Building on last week’s article, summarising the M.B.T.I. (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) preferences, I’d like to explore the link between it and leadership styles. In our practice, we like to refer to an old (1969) and still so amazingly actual model, Hersey and...