Purpose – Tackling stress is a common challenge for executives but many leaders are reluctant to recognize it, or talk about it. Executive coaches are many times aware of how leaders feel as they work very closely with them. However, they are often not sufficiently equipped to recognise and...

Dedication -- Foreword -- Contents -- About the Author -- Part I: Going Down … -- 1: I Hate My Boss -- Questions -- 2: Riding for a Fall -- Questions -- 3: Why Them and Not Me? -- Questions -- 4: Gimme, Gimme, Gimme -- Questions -- 5: Feeling Sorry for the Super-Rich? -- Questions -- 6: It's...

This article analyzes a problem that can be described as the retirement syndrome. In exploring the difficulties many leaders face in letting go at the end of a full career, it reviews a number of the barriers to exit: financial, social, and psychological. It looks at the physical and...

This presentation to business graduates at INSEAD addresses the question of what makes for happiness. An attempt is made to deconstruct this elusive concept. It is suggested that essential aspects of happiness are someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. In this essay, each...