Today we find ourselves limping from one crisis to another. And we cut, and cut, and cut. We cut costs (a necessity); we cut personnel (a tragedy); we cut hopes (a mistake) – and in the end, we cut the fun out of our lives (a disaster!). Who can take five years of this? Professional […]

“I have one hierarchical boss, two functional ones whom I hardly know, and I’m part of three or four Strategic Global Initiative teams, two of them operating remotely, and I sometimes wonder if in a near future I’ll still be able to find my way back to my own bedroom… Not to think about how […]

What inspired this title was a conversation with a friend only a week ago. She, an international manager, provocatively asked me what a deep sea diver and a virtual team leader had in common and immediately offered the answer “both work in the dark”. This was followed by an agitated description of the day’s telephone […]