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A leadership question about incentives, identity and whether our measures reward progress.

Safety and Freedom in business

Many leaders ask me to help them find the way to motivate, influence and create autonomy in their teams. I believe that being a leader is all about that, and yes, that is also why leaders sometimes reach the point of exhaustion, because it seems like the work is never done. And indeed, it is not! 1) The work is never done Being a leader to a group of people means that they are counting on you. They need to see more than arguments and they need to see congruent behaviou

Everything starts with an “irresistible” proposal or the vision of a new and bigger opportunity for your life. There is lots of help on offer to organize a school and find a house, the dream starts growing and the reality gets a bit interesting, so we get a little more into the dream. The day comes when the dream becomes reality: we are in our new house and we see the truck arrive with our most precious belongings. We are getting ready to start new jobs, the kids are startin

As we move around in the world of expats, we have found out that it is much more than moving countries every four years. An expat is defined as someone that lives outside of their native country. The term gains different meanings along the way, as well as a lot of social and political connotations. Some people will never accept being called “immigrants”; they will always call themselves “expats”, even if for the Expatriate Archive Center the definition of an expat is: ”someo

We can do more and better

Every day, I speak with leaders, people in leadership roles or those with a leader mindset. Their complaints are becoming more pronounced and increasingly similar. “If I do what I really want to do, I will be in trouble.” This sentiment is echoed by many, time and again. The Complexity of Leadership Leadership has never been easy. It promotes dynamics of both attraction and repulsion. You may not hear this often, but a leader is an interruption to a natural group dynamic. As