
{"id":21906,"date":"2025-04-14T15:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meritxellobiols.com\/?p=21906"},"modified":"2025-07-19T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:17:39","slug":"mary-poppins-as-leadership-referent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meritxellobiols.com\/en\/mary-poppins-as-leadership-referent\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Poppins as a leadership reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the students who know me know how much \u201cMARY POPPINS\u201d inspires me as a professional.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ever since I saw the movie as a child (its first version), I have been fascinated by this character: that <strong>100% professional and vocational woman, demanding but empathetic, serious but close, with common sense and passionate, firm with facts and gentle with people, always resolute and full of resources<\/strong> (I still marvel at her briefcase full of the most surprising and extravagant things), <strong>making the difficult easy, always accompanying to grow, improve and overcome challenges, elegant and flirtatious, making herself unanimously respected<\/strong>&#8230; always from the trust she earned&#8230; and with that mysterious point where you never end up knowing everything about her. ..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What I least understood (now I do!) is the decision to disappear when the problem for which she was called upon was solved. For me, the BEST EXAMPLE AND INSPIRATION of the coach I want to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What was my surprise when one of my coachees, co-founder of a company dedicated to the design and manufacture of shoes at national and international level, <a class=\"LmfeiLKoocWbXCNApouwKExPrfRknwNE \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/naguisa\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">NAGUISA<\/a> (I adore their beautiful and original creations, which take me away from sneakers and allow me to stand for hours in comfort and without living it as a torment&#8230;). I know very well what I&#8217;m talking about&#8230;), brought to my office some shoes, at my request, that fit my style (they have me more than \u201con file\u201d&#8230; they only needed to know my size&#8230; the rest&#8230; I left it in the hands of the professionals, of course).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just like on Three Kings Day, I opened the box with excitement. I assure you that it did not detract at all from the feeling I had as a child when you discover a gift that you were expecting but that reveals the magic of something really special.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And there they were! My Mary Poppins booties! I couldn&#8217;t believe it. My coachee was a bit stunned by my reaction and, of course, I had to share this story with her so that she would understand the value and meaning of my reaction. It was such a beautiful moment, so magical, so special&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you <a class=\"LmfeiLKoocWbXCNApouwKExPrfRknwNE \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/naguisa\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">NAGUISA<\/a>, without knowing it, you designed the perfect shoes for your coach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21900 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meritxellobiols.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1744658217895-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Zapatos negros estilo vintage con cordones, combinados con una falda de estampado pata de gallo y bolso de dise\u00f1o con colores visibles.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meritxellobiols.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1744658217895-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.meritxellobiols.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1744658217895-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.meritxellobiols.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1744658217895-440x587.jpeg 440w, https:\/\/www.meritxellobiols.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1744658217895.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the students who know me know how much \u201cMARY POPPINS\u201d inspires me as a professional. &nbsp; Ever since I saw the movie as a child (its first version), I have been fascinated by this character: that 100% professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"#ffffff","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[607,455],"class_list":["post-21906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-en","tag-emotional-intelligence-en","tag-emotional-leadership"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>leadership inspired by Mary Poppins<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can Mary Poppins inspire professional leadership? 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