NON-PROFIT BOARDS
The Le Van Company
helps nonprofits improve board governance,
and mediates disputes involving non-profit boards.
We have grown... Read More
NARCISSISTIC LEADERS
The following are extracts from an article “Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons” by Michael Maccoby in the... Read More
MY NEW PARTNER: MR. AGE
“I’m turning the company over to my sons on January 1,” said the founder of a highly successful company with deserved pride. “And what will you do on... Read More
MIDDLE PASSAGE: FROM MISERY TO MEANING IN MIDLIFE
Gerald Le Van’s Notes on James Hollis’ “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-life” Inner City Books, Toronto, 1993. ollis is a psychologist and heads the Jungian Society in Houston, Texas. He writes well but some readers may be turned of... Read More
MID-LIFE CRISIS
We are happiest in our early years and again in our later years. We’re not so happy in mid-life. Or at least so says the research.
Mid-life can be... Read More
MANAGING ONESELF
Extracts from Peter Drucker’s “Managing Oneself”
Published in Harvard Business Review March-April 1999
Success in the knowledge economy... Read More
INTERDEPENDENCE:LESSONS FROM GEESE
On chilly mornings in the coastal marsh you may hear hundreds of wild geese flocked together, gently honking, feeding on found grain. Then, as though... Read More
