MY REFLECTIONS AND ARTICLES IN ENGLISH
THE INVISIBLE VIOLENCE OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATION
There is a peculiar form of violence that does not manifest in shouts or explicit prohibitions. It dwells in the space between what was said and what should have been understood. It resides in the distance between…
WHY COULDN’T ANYONE SAY THE EMPEROR WAS NAKED?
Today, talking with an old-guard telecom friend who worked at Motorola, we reminisced about those effervescent years — 1997, 1998 — when the telecom market was boiling. The privatization of Telebrás, GSM towers sprouting by the thousands,…
WHY YOUR POWER ONLY EXISTS IF YOU DESTROY IT
When I read this sentence in Timothy R. Clark’s book on psychological safety, something froze inside me. I couldn’t detach that idea from the reality I experience every day — in organizational consulting, in executive coaching processes,…
THERAPY DOES NOT ABSOLVE YOU
Something deeply disturbing is happening in the waiting rooms of contemporary therapists’ offices. I’m not referring to the usual anxiety of those seeking help — that is legitimate, and often moving. I’m talking about something else: the…
DO NOT BE MISTAKEN — THE MIDDLE WAY IS NOT BALANCE
You have likely heard of the “middle way.” You have probably read or heard this expression dozens of times being used as a synonym for balance, moderation, common sense. As if there were, between two extremes, a…
LEADING THREE LEVELS ABOVE – THE INVISIBLE ART OF SEEING WHAT IS NOT YET REAL
There is a skill that separates technically excellent professionals from strategically indispensable leaders — and it rarely appears in job descriptions. It is something simultaneously more subtle and more decisive: the ability to see three levels above…
THE BRUTAL PRICE OF TURNING EVERYONE INTO COPIES OF YOU
Gandhi once made the following statement: “Our ability to achieve unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.” But what about you? Have you ever stopped to reflect on the dizzying depth…
CHRONICLE OF AN ANNOUNCED COGNITIVE DEATH – WHEN WE OUTSOURCE THE FUTURE AND CALL IT PROGRESS
There is a type of death that does not announce its arrival with sirens or diagnoses. It settles in silently, disguised as convenience, celebrated as evolution, naturalized as inevitable. When you finally realize you have died, you…
THE TYRANNY OF THE ‘HEALTHY’ RELATIONSHIP – Why the experts in healthy relationships have become a factory of unhappy neurotics
There is a silent epidemic taking over social media, therapy offices, and bookstores: experts in healthy relationships. They pop up everywhere with their infallible formulas, instant diagnoses, and recipes for conjugal happiness. “5 signs you’re with a…
WHEN EVOLVING FEELS LIKE GOING BACKWARD
There is a brutal irony in the process of human transformation: the moments in which we evolve the most are precisely the ones in which we feel the most lost. There is no fanfare. No sudden clarity.…
