Feedback occupies a central place in contemporary leadership and management practices. Each year, organizations from all sectors invest considerable resources in performance reviews, personality type or behavioral style assessments (MBTI, DISC, Hogan, etc), executive coaching packages, customized or off-the-shelf 360 assessments and feedback training. All are based on a common assumption : people improve when they receive accurate information about their behavior and its impa

June 10th 2026 A few days ago, I participated in a conversation that left me thinking. Two friends and fellows practitioners and I have been experimenting for a little bit more than a year with a new format of conversations, which we call "the Metaphor Project". We usually invite someone who finds themselves at a threshold: a professional transition, a personal dilemma, or a sense that something important is shifting internally, but not yet fully visible. Far from wanting to

June 20th 2026 This week, with the help of AI, I created a simulation, which I ran with a group of Masters' students. They became the executive committee of a fictional biotechnology company facing a series of difficult decisions. The company had developed a promising treatment for a rare disease, which could potentially help thousands of patients. But pursuing it would come at a cost: jobs were at risk, communities could be affected, financial sustainability was uncertain a