Human Psychology

Default Personal Time: Why Only One of 20 Top Executives Made It to Valaam

Strategy exists — results don’t: where a leader loses touch with the business

How to support someone who is grieving

Lingonberries, the cold Ladoga, and a “prayer turn”: where to find support when business strategies stop working

With My Last Strength, We Walked Toward the Crater. Why the Achievement Mindset No Longer Works

The Economy of Female Burnout: Why Time Management No Longer Works, and How Strong Women Reclaim Their Capital

Author-Led Women’s Expeditions to Kamchatka: Where Hypercontrol Ends

Less action – more benefit: how to bring order to your plans, belongings, and routes

Kamchatka as an Antidote to Urban Anxiety: Why Strong Women Benefit from Going Where Not Everything Can Be Controlled

Why a Woman Leader Sometimes Needs an Expedition, Not a Vacation

Why Successful Women in Business Are Increasingly Breaking Down Not from Work, but from the Role of “I’ll Handle Everything Myself”

Why You Work 12 Hours a Day and Still Feel Dissatisfied with Yourself (And How to Regain Your Energy)

Dagestan Under Water: Why the Disaster Struck at the Most Crucial Season — and Why We Cannot Pretend Nothing Happened

Whales, the Pacific Ocean, and a Burned-Out Ego: Why Leaders Need to Go to the Edge of the Earth

Station Master Syndrome: How Corporations Kill Initiative with Their Own Hands

The “Active Networking” Trap: Why a Leader Needs to Stay Silent on Vacation

The Economics of Burnout: Why an Exhausted CEO Costs a Company More Than a Market Crisis

Psychological Maturity – How to Develop Independence and Self-Reliance

The Tyranny of Success: How to Distinguish Your Own Desires from Imposed Ones

How to Trick Your Brain and Stop Procrastinating

Unpleasant Feelings – How to Accept, Process, and Let Them Go

Forms of Self-Sabotage – How Not to Get in Your Own Way