Category: Leadership Storytelling

  • Lessons from the Head of Intelligence

    Lessons from the Head of Intelligence

    Candid interview in NZZ with the Head of Swiss Intelligence, Christian Dussey. A brilliant man, Ambassador Dussey kindly hosted me as a Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and as the Centre’s first Novelist-in-Residence. Also, he’s a great storyteller from whom I learned a lot… Allow me to reminisce and reflect on the…

  • Manage change with storytelling: Get inside their head

    Manage change with storytelling: Get inside their head

    Why we should manage change with storytelling… Growing up, I’d occasionally take off my spectacles and put them next to me on the sofa, bed, or sometimes even the floor. Just for a moment. My father never tired of telling me NOT to do this. Much to my annoyance — after all, I wasn’t that…

  • The artist’s approach to saving the world

    The artist’s approach to saving the world

    Hi, Story: Fiction as a tool for lateral thinking GCSP Director Ambassador Christian Dussey believes in learning from history — the obvious intersection between International Relations and story. As Churchill put it, “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” So how about using fiction as a means of…