The Negev desert

Things can really get to you. Sometimes that happens a lot easier than normal. Last week I traveled, together with a group of entrepreneurs through the Negev-desert. You get simply overwhelmed by the rough and beautiful nature. Especially under the full moon and the crystal clear stars, which light up the entire desert.

Because the desert is a place where you are secluded from the usual context of daily life, it is a place where you can easily be affected by things from within yourself. Surrounded by very little stimulus, your soul starts to stir, your heart speaks clearly, and you cannot just ignore it, you have to face it. A revelation...

Leadership in permanent crisis

This is one of the leading titles of Harvard Business review Onpoint this summer 2012. We are used to think about leadership in periods of crises. You just have to endure, stay straight, bend a little, lead your team, and then land safely on the other side of the wild stream of crises. But we always thought that ‘on the other side’ there would be a more save country, a more relaxed phase and time. And that was so, for many decades.

Since 2010 we entered in a decade where both complexity of society, politics, media and global movements increase, as well as turbulence and crisis’s increase to a more permanent level.

This could worry us, but can also challenge us to grow in our leadership-competence and leadership character.

When all seems to be out of control:  - you have to give direction-