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The Downward Spiral

Lately I have been thinking of Abraham Flexner. He wrote the Flexner report – a critical examination of medical education in the US, which had far reaching implications. The physicists amongst us know him better as the establishing director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, bringing together the great minds of Einstein, Goedel,…
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A different kind of leadership

A leader is typically pictured as a person who is a mentor or a coach, looking into the well-being of his or her employees, and leading from the front. But leaders also play another important role – one of keeping the proverbial ship afloat. Two completely different things, requiring different approaches to leadership. When the…
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