November 2025 – Aleksandar Fatić

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In the contemporary discourse on higher education, we speak of student anxiety, of faculty burnout, of administrative bloat. We diagnose these as separate problems to...

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Rethinking Academic Leadership: Why Empathy is the Hardest Institutional Challenge We Face

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15. November 2025.

A philosophical approach to leadership in higher education Contemporary discussions of academic leadership often treat empathy as a soft skill—something to acknowledge in mission...

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You Don’t Need Another Strategy. You Need Philosophy.

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8. November 2025.8. November 2025.

Why the most successful leaders are stripping themselves bare in mountain retreats Last month, I sat across from a CEO worth €200 million. We were...

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The Dean as Soul-Keeper

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7. November 2025.

Many years ago, I became a leader by accident, or at least that's how it felt at the time. One day I was a researcher...

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The Wild Bear We Refuse to Release: On the Epidemic of Borderline Dynamics in Modern Marriage

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4. November 2025.4. November 2025.

I regularly talk to a person—let's call him Stefan—who is divorcing his wife, Marija. He describes her as "borderline" with the casual certainty one uses...

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The Client Who Can’t Love You Back: Working With Narcissism Without Losing Your Soul

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3. November 2025.

Marcus sat in my office describing, with remarkable eloquence, why his wife of sixteen years was destroying their marriage. She was demanding. Ungrateful. Emotionally unstable....

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The Trouble with Trauma: When the Story of Being Broken Becomes the Problem

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3. November 2025.7. November 2025.

Elena came to me with an impressive trauma resume. Childhood emotional neglect. Bullying in middle school. Date rape in college. Emotionally abusive first marriage. Car...