Do Not Look Back

Do Not Look Back

When I got married, a long time ago, all kinds of relatives approached me to give me advice on my wedding day. One of them was not to look back when I left home. They explained that it is not good, that tradition says to look forward, otherwise you will go back to...
While the Cat’s Away

While the Cat’s Away

One of the tasks that I had to do for my master’s degree in coaching at Insead, was to go to two companies and to observe a few things. I had to go to a company in Romania and one in a different country, where I could not speak the language. I had to observe to what...
Japan and Mental Models

Japan and Mental Models

“How was Japan?”, someone asked me at a conference a few days ago. “It was amazing, it became one of my favorite places in the world. In Tokyo and Kobe everything is well organized, clean, the infrastructure is properly developed, without any apparent traffic jams,...