Kids say the darnest things. So they say (adults, that is). I disagree. Kids speak the truth as they know and see it. They humble us with questions that show us how little we actually know. And often times they show us the better way out a situation. For example the kid of a law [...]
...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 [...]
What drives you? What makes you get up in the morning? Even when you don't feel too well, or worse, when you feel bad? It could be because of my profession, but questions like these intregue me. A book like Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us I simply can't resist. Even though [...]
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 [...]
I was in a line up and I felt irritated. 31 executive MBA students had lined up to visualize our respective progress on self set personal development goals from a year ago. The level of harshness on our own performance was typical. Without exception others rated progress higher than the ones that self [...]
... non existent. As I already wrote: objectivity does not exist (See my blog on that). So reality only exists in a subjective form. Moreover reality is boring. Pay attention to how you respond to facts and figures. Our brain has a hard time even attepting to remember them. Yes, we consider ourselves to be [...]
"Don't you... bring reality into my classroom!" Decreted my professor of marketing at Kellogg school of management. He was quite aware that reality does not exist in any other than subjective form. (Click for a do it yourself experiment.) He told the story how one day he was grocery shopping and noticed how people buy eggs. [...]
When I suggest happiness and not money is the real goal for any company and person, I mostly get worried, or even plainly annoyed looks. Happiness is subjective. Money is objective, right? Advanced financial valuation methods for example use 'discount factors' to transfer the future value of money to the infamous net present value. So what [...]
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 [...]
