Over twenty intelligent, ambitious and creative participants at the kick-off of our English program How to Really Change the World. Not all interested parties could be there. Fortunately, because otherwise the room would have been too small. Great to see that besides the students of The Hague University many professionals also are very [...]
"What it is exactly that you do Gustaaf...?" I was about to deliver my elevator pitch on consulting, training and coaching of top managers, experts and top talents. But she beat me immediately by pre-emptively posing the follow-up question: "And you do that so as to achieve what?" Sometimes hard questions have surpisingly simple answers: [...]
Another (new) year! The beginning of new, sometimes recycled, New Year's Resolutions. Why do we do that? To what avail? The answer you, like me, might find in the movie Groundhog Day. In the movie a man relives the same day over and over again. To his dismay it's not the best day [...]
...something we made up. It's the start of this video on greatness, a video you've got to love. A video by... Nike. Once upon a time I used to buy Nike gear because I loved the swoosh and the "Just do it" pay off. I worked out 3 hours a day on 6 different kinds [...]
Statistics abound on change. They don't paint a pretty picture. 70% of change programs fail (think mergers, implementation of IT systems and so on). Nevertheless I keep preaching change is simple (like I did in my blog on How to really change the world). So where does it go wrong then? My experience is [...]
