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2 October 2024
Do you understand how you stand in the way of good and healthy relationships?
This summer I came across another book that shifted my perspective and understanding. And it could actually contribute to a better story for us and the world. At least for the male half of the population.
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3 April 2024
3 Leadership reflections while mountaineering with my 82-year old father
I recently turned 50, and to mark the occasion my father and I decided to spend a weekend at the foot of the Großglockner Mountain in Austria
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3 March 2023
Have you ever been struck by lightning?
On February 21 at 5.15pm Brazil time, our sailing yacht, an X4.3 from the Danish shipyard X-Yachts, got struck by lightning.
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6 July 2022
What did I learn during my sabbatical?
This year I celebrated a big birthday, and in addition, our firm recently had its ten-year anniversary, so it occurred to me that it is time to realize a long-time dream: going for a two-month sailing sabbatical
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1 September 2024
Welcome to Sum Space
It was on Independence Day, the 4th of July 2011 when Carolina and I founded sum. 1'500 workshops in 40 countries on all 6 continents, 50 leadership conferences later, and probably 25000+ leaders that we had the honor to ’touch’ and work with, it was time to reflect on the experiences and the current state of the world. What does the world need? How can business be a force for good?
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16 September 2021
What did we learn in 10 years of sum people?
Dear friends of sum people, on Independence Day, 4th of July 2011, we founded sum people. After 20 years as a corporate employee and coming from a family of public servants founding a company was a big step
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22 June 2021
Who do you admire? and why?
One of the exercises we run during the Mountain Wisdom format asks you: who do you admire? and why? and what are the qualities that you admire of this person?
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15 July 2020
Can you shape a high performing team – online?
Over the last decade at sum people we have facilitated 1000+ High Performance Team (HPT) workshops in 40+ countries on all continents (with the exception of Antarctica; even though Tasmania, Patagonia and South Africa got relatively close)
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What can we learn from Parzival?
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28 June 2023
Parzival is an epic poem composed in the 13th century by Wolfram von Eschenbach in 16 books and a total of 24'000 lines.
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19 March 2020
Choosing Optimism in the face of crisis
During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, also known as swine flu, I helped lead the efforts at Novartis to develop and distribute a vaccine for the world.
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8 January 2020
How many big little lies are in your life?
I can’t remember that I ever recommended to watch a TV series; so this is a first. ‘Big little lies’ on HBO is a master piece, and it is not by accident that it won 4 Golden Globe and 8 Emmy Awards.
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8 November 2019
Ever been grounded? What can we learn of it?
It was diligently planned as a typical week in a busy period of the year when many clients define their priorities for the coming year, sharpen their purpose, address team dynamics, or celebrate recent achievements:
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24 October 2019
Did you give your company an inspiring purpose?
During a recent workshop with an executive team we spent significant time on spelling out a compelling and relevant purpose.
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12 September 2019
What can we learn from Burning Man?
A year ago a Mountain Wisdom friend invited me to Burning Man.
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5 June 2019
Which wall could you tear down?
Commencement speeches are a beautiful source for wisdom, and I am sure many of you drew some insights and guidance from Steve Jobs’ speech at Stanford or Steven Spielberg’s at Harvard or others that you might have watched.
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30 April 2019
Have you started to climb your second mountain?
The below article in NYT caught our attention. The author speaks to my heart when he introduces the concept of the two mountains in our lives.
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20 February 2019
What can we learn in Africa?
In a previous blog I wrote about brain wave cycles and ways to calm our busy minds to give space to creativity, intuition, empathy and potentially breakthrough ideas.
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4 January 2019
How busy is your mind?
As you read these lines are you fully focused on its content or are you somehow distracted with a lot of other things in your mind?
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1 November 2018
Do you do small talk or are you having deep conversations
Please ask yourself: How many of your social interactions remain on a relatively shallow small talk level?
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12 February 2018
And where are you on purpose
This suggests that a more holistic view on stakeholder values, customers, employees, society, community, and shareholder is becoming mainstream.
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12 February 2018
A Sense of Purpose
'BlackRock is trusted to manage more money than any other investment firm*. Our business is investing on behalf of our clients — from large institutions to parents and grandparents, teachers, nurses, doctors and people from all walks of life who entrust their savings to us.’
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