The book
‘Einstein and the Art of Sailing’ takes you along on an exciting exploration of the role of the leader. Probing, provocative, penetrating questions guide you along your way toward modern leadership. Various Directions of Thought help you discover what leadership can mean to you. This makes 'Einstein and the Art of Sailing’ a unique reader and workbook.

The website
This website is mainly intended as an extra service for readers and users of 'Einstein and the Art of Sailing’. The website provides digital support, further elaboration, and sometimes extensions as well, for many of the assignments described in this book. Each Main Current, Mirror and Window concludes with an invitation to visit the website. The authors will be systematically adding extra information to the website, so that even intensive users of the book will want to visit it. Readers and users are expressly invited to leave behind their questions and comments using the contact form.

Einstein...
Einstein, the great thinker, will accompany you on your search: the personification of the tenacious researcher and brilliant enquirer. He will help you explore the central questions surrounding modern leadership. You will pause for moments of reflection: what are the personal characteristics that will make me a good leader? You will discover various perspectives on the phenomenon of leadership: what are the things that a leader should pay special attention to?

...and the Art of Sailing
The question is not how you can become an excellent leader ‘in general’ – instead, the focus is on how you, personally, can become a top-class leader. Your personal power and the field of influence within your organisation determine the opportunities that you have. You are like a sailor who not only applies his own knowledge, learning, skill and experience, but can also utilise elements such as weather and wind, high-tide and low-tide.