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I never liked to read or to study what I was supposed to. The concept of anything that I “must do” was always against my nature. Maybe that is also why it took me quite a while to find my way back to books & education. I started to work at the age of 16, so there wasn’t much time anyway.… read more

Dear Pepper,

It is not actually one piece of literature, movie or what you are suggesting.  In my case it has been my family, the great business leaders I worked with and the US leaders who have inspired me so much that I  decided to do what I do, and it is not yet the end of it.  I am… read more

I have often thought of the experiences, books and people that have had an impact on the direction I took in my life. One experience stands out for me a little more than all the others.

As a young employee, my company sent me to a seminar given by Herb Cohen where I purchased his book, “… read more

It was June, 1969, and although I had been out of grad school for two years, and working as a research scientist for Exxon, I was still smack dab in the middle of rock and roll, playing every weekend with the Royal Teens at clubs in New Jersey and Manhattan. After 10 years as an entertainer… read more

The text that most influenced me in my life was a letter from my father shortly after our 1949 escape with one knapsack from Prague.  He urged me to study diligently, saying that what I had in my heart and what I put in my head no one could ever take away from me.
 
The wisdom of… read more

It is often called the Ultimate Question. We all seek long-term personal fulfillment in both our personal and professional lives. And in doing so, we come face-to-face with this question, a question that has confronted humanity since the dawn of time, a question each and every one us must… read more

Being creative isn’t just for artists, authors, and musicians. All of us can, and should, think about our careers creatively – working with the raw materials at hand to make something unique. In the context of career development, these raw materials might include your education and training… read more

One of the greatest gifts my parents gave me is the gift of positive thinking. They taught me that it is useless to indulge in self-pity or to dwell on what might have been. They helped me to understand that the past is past, that we have no power to change or even to mitigate yesterday´s damage… read more

For Americans born between 1979 and 1994, history has invaded their sense of well-being and self, not once but twice. The signal event was, of course, the horror of September 11, 2001. If history were a guide, then predictably these high school and college students, along with their entry-level… read more

With a career spent at the sharp end of the executive search industry, Pepper de Callier knows more than most about what makes a good leader.

The founder of the Prague Leadership Institute and a founding member of the Supervisory Board of Aspen Institute Prague, he was a partner in two… read more