When Care for the Other Becomes Destructive I have written often about leadership and have consistently stressed the importance of reciprocity. Functional leadership depends on mutuality: the capacity to connect without self-erasure, to influence without merging, to...

The Chamber of Reflections Vladimir Putin, leadership, and the risk of losing contact with reality At its core, leadership is a relationship with reality. Not with ideology, intention, or identity—but with what actually exists. As leaders rise higher, that...

How understanding emerges through dialogue Human experience is always filtered through an individual perspective. What is ultimately real can never be known with absolute certainty. We may try to approximate reality by having many people observe the same phenomenon...