Kamala and the tricky beast of authenticity
Authenticity in leadership is highly valued these days. It often comes up in the context of women leading. But how desirable is it really?
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We-Mind vs. Me-Mind
How to motivate others and yourself
Here in my house on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, I find it very hard to motivate myself to engage with anything concerning my regular work. All day long, I’m outside. Together with the gardener – and others if needed – we work hard to get all the upkeep done before I return to Brussels.
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Who do you want to be?
Remember being asked when you were small, what you wanted to be when you grew up? Did you become it or did life take you elsewhere? How did you go about picking what you studied, or what you do for a living? And how does it match with what you feel your adult identity to
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She took it out of me, but here’s what I learned
Last week, I have not been so well – sick in bed – and the reason is… no, it’s not my 4-year old (step)granddaughter in the picture above. But she taught me a life lesson I won’t forget. I had cleared my calendar for the week that she was here, to be sure that I
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Ever been told to be more assertive? Don’t listen. Read this:
‘What shall we do? ‘I don’t mind. Whatever you like.’ When I was younger, my conversations would often follow this pattern, me being the one not minding. One day, a friend gave me the well-meant advice to get some assertiveness training, because I seemed so insecure. But I didn’t feel like that at all. Nowadays, I sometimes
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Stereotypical Barbie is dead, long live the stereotype!
When I put a few pages about Barbie in my latest book – We-mind vs Me-mind, published in July – I wanted to illustrate how what we’ve learned to value in ourselves and others is making a lot of people deeply unhappy and perpetuates the very situation we want to change. Unfortunately, the latest Barbie
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We-Mind vs. Me-Mind – what’s it about?
Now that I’ve received the very first printed copy of We-Mind vs. Me-Mind: A New Vision for Sucess in Leadership and Life, I feel it’s real. The book is out! Here is a synposis: We all have a We-Mind and a Me-Mind. One of the two leads, the other follows. Most (but not all) women
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