“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.
Snooze says: ‘not yet’. It doesn’t say: it’s not for me. Neither does it say: it’s not important. Snooze says: ‘ not yet’. Snoozing has an endless potential. But it has one pitfall. When snoozing becomes an activity, ‘not yet’ becomes ‘ not now’. ‘Not yet’ is an opportunity. ‘Not …
You may change the direction of your boat. You might even decide to change your entire boat. But, you’re going to have a pretty hard time changing the sea.
Steve Jobs’s vision on creating an organization that changes the status quo is to let ideas always win over hierarchy. Create an organization where ideas win. Such a simple message, and who would disagree? Why would hierarchy win over ideas, ever? But is the status quo that we live in …
This week we’ve started the online marketing traineeship. A workshop for people who want to be an online marketer, but just don’t know how. Yet. This is the year that I wrote down that amongst the greatest joy I get from ‘lighting a fire in people’. And then taking a …
From an early age on, we learn that when we fall down; we need to stand up. And when we stand up, in time culture teaches us that it’s better not to fall down. Falling down is a mistake. Wrong. If you dare to fall, you recognize your ability to …