Marlene Engelhorn, a 21 year old Viennese student, publicly refuses to keep her double digit million inheritance. She publicly uses her good fortune to point out the inequality and unfairness in the taxation of income and wealth. She also publicly goes against her...
Even the most grounded visionaries struggle with the many demands on their time, the many meetings, ever longer to do list, and constant distractions from mobile devices. The problem is that if you get swept away by day-to-day chores at the expense of what really...
That is what a wise man, my coach, said to me when we talked about grounded visionaries and what they need to succeed in creating the change they want. And indeed, a grounded visionary cannot be a compelling leader without the ability to create intimate...
I was afraid. It was at dusk, and I was out on Lake Zurich in a one person rowing boat, a good few months after a knee surgery. My teacher had told us not to bother with life vests, and so I rowed with the vest stored somewhere in the boat, because I did not want to...
A grounded visionary is both a disruptor and a healer. If you have a vision to change something for the better, then you are bringing disruption to the way things have been done up until now. If you are not willing to disrupt a system, you cannot change, let alone...
Most people struggle when asked about their personal vision for life. They tell me about goals, about what they don’t want. They often linger on those things they desperately want out of their lives - the sooner the better. Often they wish they had a better job, got...