Servant Leadership Doesn’t Mean Being a Doormat The phrase “servant leadership” often gets misunderstood, especially in modern workplaces where aggression is mistaken for confidence and burnout is treated like a badge of honor. To some people, servant leadership sounds weak. Passive. Overly accommodating. Like saying yes to everyone while sacrificing your own well-being in the […]
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You can stand in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza—just steps from the United Nations—and never learn who Dag Hammarskjöld was. No context. No explanation. Just a name on the street. In this episode of Decoding the Unicorn: The Podcast, I explore a strange and unsettling question: How does someone so important become so invisible? Dag Hammarskjöld wasn’t just
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A quiet question is beginning to draw attention. Recently, I was interviewed by The Manhattan Herald about something that, once noticed, is difficult to ignore: You can stand in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza in Manhattan and never learn who he was. No plaque, marker, or interpretive signage. Nothing to explain why this particular stretch of New
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Ledare vänder sig till Dag Hammarskjöld I tider av global osäkerhet händer något intressant. Ledare börjar vända sig bakåt. Inte efter policy eller strategi, utan efter språk och förståelse. Nyligen avslutade Irlands president, Catherine Connolly, ett tal vid toppmötet In Defence of Democracy i Barcelona med en välkänd formulering från den tidigare FN:s generalsekreterare Dag
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Leaders Reach for Dag Hammarskjöld In moments of global uncertainty, something interesting happens. Leaders begin to reach backward. Not for policy or strategy, but for language and understanding. Recently, in a speech at the In Defence of Democracy summit in Barcelona, Ireland’s president, Catherine Connolly, closed her remarks with a familiar line from former UN
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You Can Stand in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza and Never Learn Who He Was A friend recently visited Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza in Manhattan. It’s a lovely space—trees, greenery, and rotating public art installations. In many ways, it feels like exactly the kind of environment Dag Hammarskjöld himself would have appreciated. Quiet. Thoughtful. A little removed from
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Dag Hammarskjöld: The Secretary-General No One Expected to Matter They needed someone acceptable. Not too bold or controversial… Someone who wouldn’t upset the balance that already existed. The position ostensibly mattered, but the man—ideally—would not. So they chose him. His name was Dag Hammarskjöld, and at the time, he was not the obvious choice. Dag
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What if the problem isn’t that you don’t know what to do… but that you’ve never really been taught how to know yourself? Let’s talk about self-knowledge—the kind that quietly reshapes your decisions, your relationships, and the direction of your life. Because most people aren’t actually lost. They’re just disconnected from themselves. #selfknowledge #feelingstuck #findyourdirection
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I början av 1960-talet befann sig två män—Patrice Lumumba och Dag Hammarskjöld—i centrum av en av de mest turbulenta perioderna under 1900-talet. De var mycket olika i temperament, bakgrund och roll. Men båda befann sig i samma storm: den kris som följde på det nybildade Kongos brytning med kolonialmakten. Idag kopplar många framställningar samman deras
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In the early 1960s, two men—Patrice Lumumba and Dag Hammarskjöld—found themselves at the center of one of the most volatile moments of the twentieth century. They were very different in temperament, background, and role. But both found themselves in the same storm: the crisis that followed the newly independent Congo’s break from colonial rule. Today,
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