Another Ordinary Day Lacroix Family Calendar for Friday, May 7, 2021 The Lacroix family, Anne-Marie (42), Pierre (47), Sophie (16), and Nicolas (7), live in Nyon, Canton Vaud, just between Lausanne and Geneva in Switzerland. Today is Pierre’s 47th birthday, his...

A Zoom call for Global Sports Tech Talks — 17.04.20 I was lucky or unlucky to be in the middle of 2 crises as Managing Director of sizable organizations. Athens Dec 2009 and the following quarter — a financial crisis...

  A few weeks before Christmas in 1995, Malden Mills, the original manufacturer of Polartec clothing, burned to the ground. For the community of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the crisis was devastating. Malden Mills employed 1,400 people, now out of work. Except...

by Christos Tsolkas I used to work for the whisky business some years ago. I learned how it is made, stored and matured in precious casks. I met master blenders. To me they were almost like magicians.

Corporate Schizophrenia When I started my first job, there was a colleague working next to me,

Searching for Urgency (Chapter Four) “You have to BE the right kind of person first, then you must DO the rights things before you can expect to HAVE” Zig Ziglar   That understanding of purpose and the realization that it...

The story of Mr. Nadella (Chapter Four)   …When Nadella took over as CEO, he started by asking some very basic questions: “What is it that we should do? What’s the sensibility that would be lost if we should disappear?”...

Chapter Three – Teams Thrive on Purpose …In a crisis, when chaos or confusion threatens to take over, somehow human beings often reveal their best selves, usually by joining together in common cause. Daniel Aldrich, a political scientist at Purdue University...

Chapter Three: WE NEVER STOP …..In a positive team environment, people give and get all the time. They contribute and are supported in turn. This makes them feel less lonely and isolated and more engaged. When combined with a clear...

The God, the Flag, the Family and the Meaning There’s an old saying in the military, “There are no atheists in fox holes.” It means that

The beginning of TOMS shoes (Chapter Two)   Mycoskie grew up in a middle class family in Texas but he was clearly a driven individual.

Anastas is Bulgarian, divorced, years in Canada and London, his single daughter lives in Sofia,