Thoughts to take further
I explore how ideas emerge, why products get stuck and how possibilities become something that works. Sometimes that is about marketing and product development, sometimes about collaboration, health or life itself.
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway And then there was PowerPoint ... admittedly in 1987 under the name Presenter and not yet owned by Microsoft. After…
17-02-2025
“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” Anonymous Work hard in silence and resounding success will follow. Don't talk about your plans and tactics with others. A field general does not let the enemy know his plans on the…
04-07-2024
A director at a health insurance company once told me the best way to make the board cheerful: give them the feeling that everything is under control and, above all, don't saddle them with a problem. If you do that, they quickly think,…
04-07-2024
We all face conflicts from time to time; there is nothing wrong with that in itself. Yet conflicts often make us feel bad. Especially if there have been unpleasant experiences surrounding conflicts such as arguments, resentment and…
15-06-2024
“You will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both” Unknown There are CLEARLY two kinds of people in the world.... Those who make your life easier and…
16-05-2024
Successful team performance is not achieved by haphazardly putting people together. A high-performing team consists of people who really trust each other. In such a safe environment, they dare to map out the path to success together.…
06-06-2023
Every day we read the news in which some cesspool is opened where the creeping odor is truly unbearable. It especially stinks when someone has not followed the rules imposed. In this day and age, you apparently have to be more Catholic…
04-11-2022
Organizations optimize their self-interests. Little concerned with gaining real insights. Reflecting and learning to embrace feedback will go a long way. Purposely go from efficient to effective. Stop exuberantly adoring KPIs or other…
17-02-2022
Agitated, you grab the rope with only one goal, getting the opponent over the line! The heels you kick deep into the sand. White knuckles on your hands show how vigorously you grip the rope. The game is simple, to win you must pull the…
29-06-2021
Twenty-one-year-old Australian Nick Kyrgios is in his tennis match. He is ready to serve.... The crowd is dead silent. Instead of a vicious serve, he hits the ball with a lob to his opponent Mischa Zverev. The ball moves agonizingly…
29-06-2021
It is already late in the afternoon. We have arrived in a typical English landscape where the hills are as gray as the clouds. The rain is drizzling down relentlessly today. A man in black stands alone and completes the scenery. Proudly…
29-06-2021
Are you familiar with the book “Holes” by Louis Sachar? It's about prison life at Camp Green Lake where American youth prisoners toil under the scorching sun. In the Texas desert, they hack, chop and dig for months with nothing but…
03-06-2021
“ In the end I thought, I'm going to stop this program. It's a very good program, I think. At least a lot has been achieved, let me put it more modestly. But fifteen years is fifteen years. It is beautiful, it was beautiful and has been…
11-12-2020
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge…
10-12-2020
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