In my Value Anatomy spreadsheet, the Hummingbird is a symbol of Joy and Vitality, Enthusiasm and the kind of a Spark that we all hope for in our lives. Luckily, I have one such Hummingbird in my team – Alasdair Bouch. Aside from being a musician who gives joy to audiences, he’s also good with…
I rented a room in the Loreta Monastery at the Prague Castle in order to find the peace to write the Value Anatomy book. The cloister was founded in 1600 by a saint who came from Italy to Rudolph II’s court in Prague. It was the same court that hosted Prague’s famous alchemists. Blending cultures…
This entire project is about defining things, about giving our feelings and values names. Yet, until now, it was simply “The Value Project” the same way I have “The Michelangelo Project” and “The Creativity Project”… and and and. It took three creative minds and about two hours of a brainstorming meeting and we got it….
As I opened the dialog about values with people around me, I’m finding out that the themes indeed repeat, that there is an internal structure to this. I sense correlations between these subjects and sacred geometry, almost seeing it as an underlying network of all that we call humanity. It sounds posh, it sounds preposterous…
Our heated discussion with Tony Achmat had sent me to the internet and compiling a list of all conceivable human values – all the things people talk about as important, wish for, fight for and defend. I went through web sites, oracle cards, books and all sorts of materials I had from the past. I…
In February 2017, our friend and renowned business coach Tony Achmat was invited to Mumbai, India, to receive the Global Trainer and Leadership Developer Award at the 25th Jubilee Global HRD Congress. It was a well-deserved recognition following 27 years working with the corporate community in Europe. As he prepared his acceptance speech, we discussed the issue…