Welcome to the fifty-third edition of “In-Touch”. As always, I would love to continue the conversation so please let me know, in the comments section below, what you think. Story of the Week: “One for All, All for One” My uncle, Lakis Michaelides, has always been a captivating storyteller. He recently told me about an event that took place in…

Welcome to the fifty-second edition of “In-Touch”. As always, I would love to continue the conversation so let me know, in the comment below, what you think. Story of the Week: This Year, Choose a Word and Not a Resolution! Two days before the end of 2022, I read an interesting article in the Washington Post by the American author Tara Parker-Pope. In…

Welcome to the fifty-first edition of “In-Touch”. As always, I would love to continue the conversation so let me know, in the comments below, what you think. Story of the Week: Lessons of the Year As we come to the end of another year, it’s a good time to reflect on everything we have learned and how we…

Welcome to the fiftieth edition of “In-Touch”. As always, I would love to continue the conversation so please let me know in the comments below what you think. Story of the Week: Putting Others in the Frame An out-of-the-blue question about parenthood on Farah Shamma’s “Hotel Talk” podcast has changed some of my ideas on management and leadership. “How…

Welcome to the forty-ninth edition of “In-Touch”. As always, I would love to continue the conversation so please let me know what you think in the comments below. Story of the Week: Why ‘Yes, if…’ is better than ‘No’ My friend Costas Galatariotis recently told me about a conversation that he had two decades ago with one of the most prominent…

Welcome to the forty-eighth edition of “In-Touch”. As always, I would love to continue the conversation so please let me know what you think in the comments below. Story of the Week: Do Your Best Last week, a friend asked me to collect his son from school. Since the boy is one of my own son’s classmates…

Welcome to the forty-seventh edition of “In-Touch”. As always, I would love to continue the conversation so please hit let me know what you think in the comments below. Story of the Week: ONE and ONE make ELEVEN* As the referee prepared to blow the half-time whistle, my cousin’s team was only losing 1–0 but they were extremely lucky…

Welcome to the forty-sixth edition of “In-Touch”. As always, I would love to continue the conversation so please reply back in the comments below and let me know what you think. Story of the Week: What People Want more than Sex and Money. “The only consistent thing about her was her inconsistency.” Spyros told me. “Even after I’d corrected her time and…

Welcome to the forty-fifth edition of “In-Touch”. As always, I would love to continue the conversation so please hit “reply” and let me know what you think. Story of the Week: The 10-year Journey from Knowledge to Wisdom Chris Yiallourides was one of my first ever mentors. At the beginning of my career, we would meet up after almost every seminar…