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
INCENTIVE TRUSTS
“Medieval alchemists failed to turn lead into gold. Wealthy twenty-first century parents fear a reverse alchemy. Will their children transmute... Read More
