There’s no such thing as winning or losing in a relationship. Finite games have a known number of players, a clear objective and set rules. Football. Infinite games have known and unknown players, the rules are changing and the goal is to stay in the game as long as possible, …
It’s strange that once we see we can never unsee. What we can do is pay attention and see if it changes something. And we can even, stop paying attention.
We can do busywork for the rest of our lives. We often know what’s really important to us, but we procrastinate. Why? We, humans, are extraordinary people. We seek pleasure and avoid pain. We álso have a unique feature to imagine the future. So we might discover that something is …
I come across this situation every now and then. When someone has an idea for my company or project. I deny the idea without providing very much context, in the greater vision it’s a bad idea. This may sound acceptable, but actually it isn’t productive. And this situation I notice …
Most questions lose their relevance as soon as an answer is given. It’s the great – and often easiest – questions that gain relevance when an answer is not yet forthcoming.
Last couple of days I’ve listened to Simon Sinek a lot and he’s writing history in making work environments awesome. One of the learnings I took away was a story where an airport employee obeyed the rules to not let a passenger in a hurry pass into the plane. It …
Ownership is taking responsibility for the result. For everything that influences the mission in or beyond our control. Leadership is taking care of our people. Often it comes with placing the success of others above our own with (selfless) acts that require bravery and vulnerability, growing trust and faith. Clearly …
In order to be creative, you need to want to be wrong. Everything in our society is laying a fundament under being right. Being wrong is shamed and blamed, whereas being right is applauded. Think about this for a second. Everything that was ever invented, wasn’t precedented, thus risky, and …
We can’t ask our kids to not be receptive for social approval – stop being picture perfect on the unsocial media – if we are. We can’t ask our kids not to ask for our smartphones continuously, if we use them all day. We can’t ask our kids to watch …
“Yes sir, certainly, if you order before 11PM tonight, the products will be there tomorrow.” The lady said on the phone, when I asked if there’s still 20 pens on stock and that I needed that specific golden Hay pen as a gift tomorrow for 20 people. In the morning …