Fear cloaks itself in many different disguises, and some of them are very difficult to penetrate, such as stress, “respect” or not feeling at one with the world. What’s more, tracking fear down from behind its various masks often requires you to become your own personal Sherlock Holmes. (more…)
Angela Mendez and Montse Mateos recently wrote an excellent article about the impact of fear in the workplace. In this post, I’ll elaborate on their ideas to help people face up to fear.
I have put together a Powerpoint presentation about my new book NoFear and some ideas that I discuss in conferences.
Control for control’s sake could well be the motto of many companies. A friend of mine, who has just been appointed as the managing director of an American multinational corporation, told me about his own frustrating attempts to improve the people management in his own company. (more…)
People sometimes ask me why I decided to write a book about fear. It all goes back to 1998 when I was writing my doctoral thesis about knowledge management (which ended up being about talent management). (more…)
