Reinier van Eijk

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 …

There’s no lifeboat. You’re not going to get picked. You have to pick yourself. You have to rescue yourself. You have to do it yourself. It’s not easy to realize that it’s ultimately you, who needs to get on your feet and do the scary and brave things if you …

Creating a pile of work is a trap. When we tell ourselves ‘not now, I’m busy with something else’, we actually mean ‘I am afraid that if I only do/ship this small piece of work, it’s not enough’. Well, newsflash, it’s never enough if you keep striving for perfect. Instead, …

Going far is an accomplishment, going fast is a means. Going fast and far is art. Every time I wanted to go fast, it turned out that going fast wasn’t so much going far (or the other way around). And cutting corners has never been a proper way to go …

Some people do very much but accomplish very little. Some people know very much but accomplish very little. Our accomplishments depend as much on what we know as on what we do and, often on the combination of them.