Last week, I held my first performance evaluation meeting of the year with myself, and I had a look on my annual and mid-term goals. My list includes various goals related to personal life, learning, health, and of course, work
In recent weeks I got more and more tasks, and after a relatively calm period, I found myself back in the rat race. Near the return of time constraints and the need for strict planning to be in the right place at the right time, the constant underlying tension, which I hadn't missed
I have been thinking about this topic for more than a decade now, always referred to under the working title "Three Deaths," based on Lev Tolstoy's collection of short stories, "Three Deaths"
As the topic of personal and organizational development constantly interests me, I often find new viewpoints in unexpected places. This time, it was on pages 20-23 of the book "Light on Yoga" by B.K.S. Iyengar
When I took over the management of the company, the beginning was very tough, working six days a week, for many hours each day. Something had to change. The next step was to have a look on the decision-making process
Many years ago, I participated in a leadership development camp in Scotland. I was very young and had no leadership experience at all, and received this opportunity to test, how I could meet the requirements. We were from many different countries, and we spent a week with solving different tricky tasks
Being a leader always reminds me of an old movie, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. The workload is enormous, the goal is far away, and even though there are supporters, family members, friends with whom you can share problems, somehow you are still alone
I remember when I was part of a large organization, at the beginning of each year, we'd gather to set our annual goals, documenting them in Workday, and we reviewed what we've achieved in June and at the year-end. The system theoretically worked quite well
I recently caught up with an old colleague and mentioned to him that I seem to be slowly overcoming my mid-life crisis, a period I found challenging. He sympathetically responded, acknowledging the difficulty of such experiences and expressing hope that I had received help
I came across two confusingly similar stories the other day, both dealing with the issue of empowerment. In the first case, an old colleague of mine joined a small business. As a group leader