Category: Columns

  1. The Echo Chamber – When Silence Looks Like Agreement

    The first trap in The Leadership Trap is the Echo Chamber. If there is one pattern that shows up in almost every major failure Aravind Sakthivel…

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  2. The Leadership Trap – How Good Leaders Become Case Studies

    Most public stories about leadership failure follow the same script. A high-profile chief executive or founder makes a reckless decision, ignores warnings, destroys value. Commentators pick…

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  3. Legitimate Resistance

    My Christmas reading has offered a surprising perspective of hope for Ukraine from a new book about the 17th century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer. Vermeer lived,…

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  4. Why Celebrate?

    Beyond the sentimental glitz, music and food, Christmas can be very unsettling. Now for the fourth time since Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, we are celebrating the Word…

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  5. Decline or Dialogue?

    Two sharply contrasting views of Europe surfaced this week, one from Washington, the other from Brussels. These two visions imply very different futures for Europe. And for…

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  6. THE UNITED NATIONS AT 80

    This article was written soon after the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) Charter on 26 June 2025, as we wait to…

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  7. A compass for our times

    How should followers of Jesus respond in a time of political turmoil and cultural fragmentation, when the loudest voices often drown out the wisest? Last night…

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  8. Still relevant!?

    This weekend we approach the twentieth century with the eighth of nine events in our Geloof in Mokum series. Celebrating the 750th anniversary of Amsterdam, we have been…

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  9. Letter to America

    In 1898, three years before he became prime minister of the Netherlands, Abraham Kuyper addressed American leaders in a series of lectures at Princeton Seminary.  I…

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  10. Some Lessons from Turkiye and India for the US Federal Reserve

    Central Bank Autonomy is Critical for Ensuring Healthy Economies and Financial Markets By Kamal Malhotra, August 6, 2025 A recent study published in the Harvard Business Review…

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