Moral Letters
058 - On Existence - Moral Letters for Modern Times
If wishes could create reality, would we live in paradise or hell? I fear we are on the path to finding out.
James Bellerjeau
Moral Letters
057 - On Outrunning Yourself - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Though we travel to the ends of the earth, we cannot outrun ourselves. Rather than looking to travel in more luxury and greater style, we should sit still with ourselves and consider whether we are running to something or running away from it.
Newsletters
Keep Your Cool (Newsletter 028)
Long-term success as a senior manager requires you to keep your cool. You need to be adept in handling information overload and remaining calm when others have lost their cool.
Moral Letters
056 - On Calm Amidst Bedlam - Moral Letters for Modern Times
To retire from work life does not mean you have retired from your worries. To take the one step without taking the other is to change places but not position.
Paradise Found
Switzerland Is Not Sweden (But It Might As Well Be)
We pay different attention to things close to home than we do those farther away.
Moral Letters
055 - On Cohen's Condos - Moral Letters for Modern Times
We assume the prominent are thrilled with their privileges, and made content thereby. But what do we know of their inner thoughts, their joys and their worries?
Moral Letters
018 - On Deprivation - Moral Letters for Modern Times
You do not need what you think you need to be happy, because all you need is within you.
Newsletters
Who Can Freely Speak Their Mind? (Newsletter 027)
Every senior manager and CEO I know is (typically rightly) paranoid that they are getting bad information from their subordinates. One reason you see CEOs asking multiple people the same question is that they are trying to triangulate the truth through a thicket of self-interested answers.
Moral Letters
054 - On Existence And Its Opposite - Moral Letters for Modern Times
There is not one of us who could not be carried off today. What does it say if you cannot say you are living today, but only preparing for a tomorrow that may never come?
Paradise Found
Eight Views of the American South
It is time to start talking about the United States. Today I will share our first impressions after not quite two months on the ground.
Moral Letters
053 - On Knowing Your Limits - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Awkwardness, thy name is Smalltalk! And to know that I will inflict myself on an unwitting dinner table with my unwitty remarks makes me wish most fervently to return to my hermit’s cave.
Newsletters
It's Good To Be The Boss! (Newsletter 026)
It is unquestionably good to be the boss, because it puts you in a position to influence your company. But if you take your job seriously, you'll soon see that little comes with the title beyond the responsibility to live up to others' expectations.