Leadership
Seven Boundaries Breached – and the Silence in the Room
Yesterday, the Planetary Health Check 2025 was released. Its message is sobering: human activities have now pushed Earth beyond seven of the nine scientifically…
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Leadership
Riding the Shake: Meeting the Inner and Outer Challenges of Transformation
If you are leading transformation today, you already know it is not just a technical project or a strategy exercise. It is a lived,…
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Leadership
The Key to Future-Fit Leadership: Why Growing Yourself Is the Most Strategic Move You Can Make
Next to me lies Giles Hutchins’ latest book, Keys for Future-Fit Leadership. It’s a book summarizing and visualizing the very best of Giles’ work…
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Trends
Business at a Crossroads: a Global Snapshot of Leadership, Themes, and Tensions
I will be joining the President’s Summit in Copenhagen next week. It’s one of Northern Europe’s leading business conferences, with more than 3000 participants…
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Leadership
Whole Systems Transformation – from the inside out
Last week, I participated in a deeply rewarding program outside of Paris: Transforming Organisations with the Barrett Values Centre. Our focus was on whole…
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Leadership
Facing the Wild Times: Cooperation, Collapse, and What It Means to Lead Now
Apocalyptic thinking usually doesn’t attract me, but yesterday, I still found myself adding Athena Akipis’s audiobook A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly…
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Leadership
Book: Leadership and the New Science
I just finished listening to the book Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, by Margaret Wheatley, initially published in…
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Leadership
Why We Need Inner Development to Navigate and Catalyze Outer Change
Today’s world is often described as VUCA—volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. The acronym captures the unpredictability of modern life, where everything from climate change…
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Leadership
Inner Development for Outer Change
The Inner Development Goals (IDG) Summit in Stockholm last week was an inspiring reminder that the path to a sustainable, thriving future lies in…
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Leadership
The power of Executive Presence
Have you ever considered what makes you want to follow one leader but not another? In its essence, it boils down to that person’s…
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