Scarcity. Abundance. Corona.

Scarcity rulezzz… I ran into an old acquaintance. On the street. It was only a short while ago, and at the same time it seems like an eternity, because before the C-crisis. C = corona. We can hardly bear the word anymore. “Hey. Hans”, I heard behind me. I looked around...

The forest, the hunt and bold leadership

The forest, hunting and bold leadership I grew up in a forest. That's true, because my parents had a campsite. Yet for years I had no interest in a forest. All that greenery, quite beautiful. But ultimately nothing more than an oxygen production company or...

The refrigerator and your high-level job

The Refrigerator and Your High-Level Job Are you a CEO? Or a CFO or a COO? Or any other C-level function? I’m curious to know what your job has done to you over the past – let’s say – two years. Maybe you’ve managed some really exciting projects. Some of those...

You don't build a cathedral in one day

A generation currently lives for about 85 years. My own mother, now 91, brings the average up and it looks like she won't be leaving us anytime soon. I thought of that when I read that building a cathedral in previous centuries also took about a...

Dealing with your email. Part 2

The greater the demands that willpower makes on you, the more powerfully the chains of habit rattle. They are not exceptional; men and women who check their e-mail boxes 36 times an hour during their commercial time*. *Note that the hours with the greatest commercial...