How pain releases our inner leader for good
While doing a course on dolphin therapy this summer I learned that caretakers must be very vigilant of health risks and carry out rigorous daily testing. These animals don’t show any change in their behavior until they’re irreversibly sick – in the wild it would make them easy prey to predators. Do our executives do […]
How Profit Stifles Your leadership
I woke up this morning to an angry journalist on the radio who vigorously complained about Pope Francis’ latest comments on profits. Apparently His Sanctity had spoken about the dangers of “capital dominating men instead of men controlling capital” at an event with cooperative credit banks last Friday. Although angry radio talk is not my […]
Want To Lead? Let Go Of Your Plans!
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans,” said Woody Allen once. Ingenious as always, he hit on a fact of life we all struggle with. As we get back to work and face the year to come, we are severely tempted to set goals and commit to plans. But plans, my […]
How To Release Your Inner Hero
The first man who thought about building a fence around a piece of land and calling it his own, had no idea how much he would change the world. As if foretold by a magic elf, in enclosing a part of nature, he also trapped a part of himself forever. Thousands of years later, breaking down our […]
To Find Your Inner Wisdom, Stop Running
As everybody in Spain races to their chosen getaway to spend a couple weeks fighting with other holiday makers over a table at the best restaurants, best spot to anchor their boat, or nicest hammock on the beach, I seem to be the wise one: Madrid is at its most relaxed and calm in August. It’s […]
How Breathing Fully Releases Your Leadership
I coached the director a national women’s magazine recently for her speech at the journal’s tenth anniversary ceremony. The keys to her success the following night were two. On one side she understood that she should be the leader to make her 400 guests feel safe and engaged by her voice. The second clue was […]
Don’t Run With Wolves, Swim With Dolphins
“Women who run with the wolves” is a book written in the seventies by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Dismissed copies rot away on many women’s shelves as an uncomfortable symbol of the untamed female soul. Forty years after its publication we’ve come to the era of women who swim with dolphins. Here’s why. One of the […]
How To Lead Without Words
How important do you think words are to get your point across in business? Let me surprise you: a lot less than you would imagine. Leadership happens under our words, around them, between them. Leadership is what happens while we’re planning what to say. The reason is simple: leadership is instinctive to survival. Knowing who […]
Why Rituals Are Critical To Your Leadership
Rituals are as old as mankind. As we grow up we are slowly brought into them by families, friends, religious communities and teachers. But we don’t really get them until we are much more seasoned in life’s perils and thrills. In today’s obsessively rational society many people don’t get them at all. Why are rituals […]
Women In Power: Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before
A dear friend asked me rather timidly for feedback over the phone yesterday. She is a friend because we’ve known each other for years now, working together occasionally and attending similar events. But she is precious to me because there’s something about her that is very endearing. Born to bring peace to every team she […]
