My executive MBA module now has this entrepeneurship course. We just started and the lecturer and I disagree. He says everybody could be taught to be an entrepeneur... I say everybody by definition is an entrepeneur. That is taking it one step further than Menno Lanting in his book "Everybody CEO". But basically his main point [...]
'To live, to learn and to leave a legacy.' One of my favorite oneliners of Stephen R. Covey, who died today (July 16th 2012). From how he affected me I know he did leave a legacy. I own his complete works. Okay, I own many books, full stop. But if my house was on fire [...]
So, you read my blog "The goal... is not making money". But what is the goal, if not making money? The good news is that the answer is simple: happiness. The bad news: happiness is hard to measure, for its highly subjective, if measurable at all. But wait, no, companies have started using [...]
Reading the same book again, after many years, is like meeting an old friend. Rereading The goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt was like a nice get together that brought back good memories. But, I was most struck by how I now fundamentally disagree with my old friend. In the book "The goal" is defined as "making money". [...]
Not withstanding all the Change management and Consulting education I have received, I have been known to say: ‘Companies do not exists… they are merely a complex set of individuals and even more complex networks of (networks of) individuals.’ I have experienced, first hand, how any one-size fits all approached fails over and [...]
