We mostly talk about leaders and what constitutes to be a leader. What about followers – do they have any role? Hearing Lao Tzu one can f...

In my previous post Labeled leadership  I described some name labeled styles of leadership and argued that there should  always be more tha...

Can Western dualism be compared to Yin and Yang? We are probably all aware that René Descartes was a major figure in seventeenth-cen...

The servant leadership philosophy and/or a set of leadership practices have been expressed and described in many ways. There is a notion th...

Dao De Jing is a transcript of around five thousand Chinese characters in eighty-one chapters or sections. The chapter divisions were durin...

In my blogs I have been using a term Dào (Dao, Tao) and would like to share with you my understanding of the meaning of the concept. Dào ...

The Mandarin Chinese word wú wéi could be described: ‘by inaction nothing is left undone.’ It may well be also translated as ‘non-acting...

The second example from China’s history for an outstanding leadership can be taken from the novel: Journey to the West . The main characte...

In this and the next two blogs I will try to shed some light on the topic of how one should behave and what one should aim for to be a succ...

Imagine walking through the woods. You carefully move and step slowly on the uneven ground where even the exposed tree roots are all covere...

In modern economy, an insight, based on explicit and tacit knowledge and the wisdom are the main driving factors for value-added creati...

Old Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi quoted Confucius : ‘Men do not use running water as a mirror; they only use the still water.’ Only th...

“People work predominantly for a reward”. Many MBA students hear and then use in order to control workers’ performance. Motivation ...

Have you ever wondered what the ultimate goal of an organization is? Today’s management will conclusively respond that organization s...

What makes a leader motivating others? The most common answer I have come across is "charisma." People want to hear what chari...

There are hundreds of books addressing the yáng of outer leadership, complete with checklists, game plans, and first person accounts of how ...

A Chinese character for colour is 顏色 (yán sè) . Before the Five Elements Theory was used and according to Daoists’ believe, there were only...