Personal Development

Theories, practices, and strategies for self-mastery, growth, and lifelong learning in professional and personal contexts.

The Empathy Trap: Good Leadership Demands Judgment, Not Just Feeling

Empathy alone can’t make leaders moral—real leadership demands judgment, courage, and justice, not just sentimental resonance.

Philosophy

The Unfinished Art of Transformation

Transformation is not a toolkit or a plan, but an open-ended journey—an invitation to be changed as we act, and to find meaning beyond what we can command or predict.

Personal Development

The Myth of the Summit: Why Pop Leadership Will Never Make You Wise

A critique of pop leadership’s obsession with success and performance, arguing that true greatness lies not in chasing summits, but in continual self-cultivation and orientation to the Good.

Personal Development

The Spirituality of The Road

A poetic reflection on spirituality as a way of being—where leadership becomes a road of presence, attention, and moral becoming.

Personal Development

LETTING GO IS NOT THE POINT...

Freedom alone is not enough—leadership means taking moral responsibility for the character, wisdom, and flourishing your organisation enables.

Personal Development

METAMORPHOSIS AND METANOIA: What Are You Willing to Be "Broken By"?

A critique of “transformation” rhetoric in leadership—why real metamorphosis begins in rupture, not self-optimisation.

Personal Development

WHAT COG WILL YOU BE?

We are not called to simply invent ourselves, but to step into the moral cosmos—serving the Good by embracing that role only we can play.

Personal Development

Academia of Spectacle: From Peer Review To Pay-Per-View

From Scholarly Integrity to Academic Celebrity: How Market Forces, Metrics, and Media Are Hollowing Out the University

Personal Development

What is the Purpose of Education? From Paideia to Practical Wisdom

Inspired by Descartes’ Rule #1: True education is not the accumulation of skills, but the cultivation of sound judgment and wisdom.

Personal Development

IS FAILURE GOOD?

Why not every mistake is worth celebrating—and what kind of failure actually drives learning and growth in organisations.

Personal Development

In Defense of a Philosophy of Life: Stoic Joy and the Art of Living

Modern culture distracts us from the big questions. Can ancient Stoic wisdom show us how to live—and flourish—amidst change and adversity?

Philosophy

GARBAGE IN, GENIUS OUT? How AI Can Make Us Smarter—or Dumber!

If we keep using #AI lazily, merely to make life easier, we will likely grow dull. But if we use it deliberately to deepen our thinking, we might just become a little wiser.

Wanted: Philosophy in Leadership!

It’s not rocket science. Yet in almost every conversation about leadership, someone confuses the gap between what is and what should be.

Personal Development

Personal Development

The Empathy Trap: Good Leadership Demands Judgment, Not Just Feeling

The Unfinished Art of Transformation

The Myth of the Summit: Why Pop Leadership Will Never Make You Wise

The Spirituality of The Road

LETTING GO IS NOT THE POINT...

METAMORPHOSIS AND METANOIA: What Are You Willing to Be "Broken By"?

WHAT COG WILL YOU BE?

Academia of Spectacle: From Peer Review To Pay-Per-View

What is the Purpose of Education? From Paideia to Practical Wisdom

IS FAILURE GOOD?

In Defense of a Philosophy of Life: Stoic Joy and the Art of Living

GARBAGE IN, GENIUS OUT? How AI Can Make Us Smarter—or Dumber!

Wanted: Philosophy in Leadership!

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