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Leadership
Leadership shows in the hard moments, not in the meetings where everything is going well. Here I write about what separates people who lead from people who hold a position: kindness when you're tired and under pressure, the responsibility of telling the truth before it becomes convenient, the double standard that still weighs on women when competence and credibility are at stake. Nothing motivational: only what I've seen work, and what I've seen break.
4 articles
July 22, 2026
The Right to Disconnect: The Law Exists, but the Calendar Decides
In at least eleven European countries, the right to disconnect is law. Yet after-hours meetings keep rising. The data points somewhere uncomfortable.
July 17, 2026
The right to disconnect is law. But your boss still decides.
Across half of Europe, disconnecting is a legal right. Yet evening meetings keep growing. The problem is no longer legal. It's cultural.
July 13, 2026
Kindness always makes the difference — and real leadership shows in the hard moments
It's easy to be kind when everything's going well. Much less so when we're tired, under pressure, or afraid. Yet that's exactly where you see who you're dealing with — and where kindness, at work too, turns out to be not a character trait but the way trust is built.
July 8, 2026
One photo at the beach and her competence vanishes: the double standard that still weighs on women
A man who posts the gym, the car, the holiday is «someone enjoying life». A woman who posts a beach photo «isn't serious». It's not my impression: it's an effect measured in a lab. And it says something uncomfortable about how we judge women's competence.