All the time management gurus create new buzzwords, every moment there is something new in the theory of management, something new emerges which seems more important than what we have known so far. Be that ‘enlightened leadership’, or ‘blue ocean strategy’ or ‘change management leadership’ or ‘managing one’s personal leadership brand’ or ‘leadership through mentoring’ or ‘engaged leadership’ or… etc. etc. Does that mean that, if the next one always outdates the previous one, we have a guarantee that some next one will finally be the true one? No. It doesn’t matter who coins what term or phrase and attach what theory to it. So, what are we going to do with a new phrase that someone will try to hammer into our heads and our practice in professional and personal life? Well, we will try all our best to align ourselves to it, to look at the world through its agenda. Why? Because we’re polite, well-mannered, subject to influence, we have a sense of duty, a sense of obligation, a sense of guilt, finally, and we want to fit in with the society; and for a hundred other reasons lying in our psyche – these are all excellent reasons. Excellent for those who create buzzwords, not for those who look for solutions. And shouldn’t it all be about the solution to be effective?

Not learning, not developing, not pleasant, not leading, not providing new knowledge, not working out new positions, not providing different angles of view, not giving an evaluation of one’s brand as a leader, and so on. These are all nice objectives. If they happen along the way – you’re welcome. However, our project must be, first and foremost, effective and operative in terms which are important, meaningful and significant to you. We don’t replace them with some more-or-less modern and trendy buzz words, created over and over again by different management gurus. In the end, we’re not there to create a new theory or to implement an old one. No. We meet to effectively solve the problem. Your problem. 1 EXECUTIVE RETREAT® project brings to the light of day things you know, but cannot grasp, because they are hidden in an inaccessible area, which we call the unconscious.

There is also another answer to that question, technocratic, but no less true than the first one.

Because in our lives, as well as in business one problem is responsible for the majority of other problems. We can call it the source problem. Approximately, it is reflected in the popular Pareto rule (80/20) which is inferred from the statistical distribution curve also known as the Gauss curve, which in turn is inferred from experience, thus from life itself. So it would seem that nothing is simpler than – reflecting duly profoundly – properly locating this one source problem. For some reason, we’re unable to do it. Why? This is the crucial part of my presentation during meetings with my clients; please feel free to contact me and schedule an appointment. I invite you also to look up the sections on ‘Research’ and ‘Case studies’– there are lots of interesting and different opinions on this subject.