Yes, I know, it really is like this: we’re nervous, stressed, we’re in trouble. What we were troubled before, now there had to come this pandemic with its cohort of nefarious consequences… It is terrible that we are deprived of the freedom to decide our own actions. Where is the city’s mobilizing trepidation and especially…
A few years ago, I travelled to Morocco. Tourism. One day, Romanian and French friends invited me to a traditional lunch. I had then the opportunity to eat mutton (later I found out it was a ram…) and see the whole preparation process: from cutting the pieces out of the carcase (about 40-50 kg) in…
I really like this dense presentation of Caroline McHugh. At first I didn’t know what attracted me most: the cut-out outfit from a modernist album about nature, her – at the same time – bizarre and appealing accent, the warm tone and calm posture (with something from the air of a Tibetan monk) or the…
Motto: Nonviolent resistance can become effective! Too often, unfortunately, freedom is understood as the right to do what we want, or what we like, or what suits us. Too often, starting with this attitude, we run into contradiction (or even conflict) with those around us, who in their turn may have (that beats all!)…
Millennials! It’s trendy to talk about them. HR people struggle to find their defining characteristics, employers try their hardest to understand them in order to “make use of” them as efficiently as possible, sociologists are breaking their back trying to conceive different scenarios as the future of the world is starting belonging to their hands….
Motivation is a major goal for any manager or leader. As soon as they have managed to motivate the team members they coordinate (including themselves), no obstacle can get in the way of the achievement of the chosen objectives. Things clear up, self-confidence increases, solutions rise at every turn, all barriers “melt” in front of…
In a small discussion, someone asked me: – What if you found out that learning is nothing else but acquisition of routines? – I’d be very disappointed – I replied. – I’m sorry I have to be the one to disappoint you – my interlocutor concluded, while moving away. I really appreciate concise expressions, and…
Motto: “Both the future and the past / Are but sides of the same page,…” – Mihai Eminescu How come we don’t leave the past?! – What question is that? Eh! But who is actually leaving the past? What? – are we actually leaving the past? Where do we part from the past? Where do…
Mother Nature – through Louie Schwartzberg – gives us another beautiful lesson about the meaning of shifting perspective, of changing the frame of reference we approach any subject. That is coaching!
This article refers to the incorrect use of a phrase in the Romanian language which risks, by mimetic multiplication, becoming the accepted norm in the current language. It is about the responsibility that we have (we – as Romanians but mostly) we, as coaches – because of the nature of our profession – towards the…
