If you don’t define who you are, someone else will. That might sound dramatic, but in my work with leaders over the years (and in my own life), it’s proven absolutely true. Too often, people spend ...

Peter Blos (1962) argues that adolescents must navigate several intrapsychic challenges, including the “second individuation process,” to develop a healthy sense of identity. This phase involves ...

Joan Didion opens The White Album with the famous line “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” This statement reflects her view that humans rely on narratives to make sense of life’s chaotic, ...

In European strategy conversations, “scale” is often treated as a synonym for standardization. Yet some of the most resilient growth models I’ve worked on emerged from the opposite logic: designing ...