Category Archives: Business
The manager misconception
Many managers have the misconception that they are being remembered for their projects. However, in times of rapid change, these are just as quickly forgotten as ice melts in the sun. What really matters is something else entirely… There is no shortage of projects in a company. Usually, managers are ...
Customer priming
Imagine, friends had invited you to play “Trivial Pursuit”. Five minutes before you start, the host asks one half of the group to imagine being a professor while playing. The other half is supposed to imagine to be hooligans. What do you think would happen? Two Dutch psychologists who have ...
Thank you Do-hower!
4 weeks of paid time off: Two in Namibia and two on a private safari in Botswana. Including Victoria Falls and a tour of the Okovango Delta. Unique, fantastic, amazing. After a month’s break, back to the office… that’s really tough. You would think. You can find out in the ...
Sorry! That’s not enough…
“I need the first week of my vacation time to switch off from work, the second to relax and the third to enjoy”. A colleague told me recently. Years ago I would have agreed with this statement, but then I radically changed something… … because during a professional training, I ...