Feel-good and feel-bad benchmarking I have seen many companies celebrating their ranking by all kind of benchmarking. Often, none or very...

Want There are companies that create products or services that everybody wants. Well, maybe not everybody but many: apple, red bull,...

Witold Gombrowicz Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) was a Polish writer. Banned, unbanned, celebrated. Anti-nationalist. Bisexual. Etc. You...

Timeless meaning encapsulated in words Oxford dictionary explains crisis: Late Middle English (denoting the turning point of a disease):...

More horses A few years ago, I have made a movie about the mobility. A management team wanted to discuss the future of mobility and I...

Bad weather You cannot overtake 15 cars in sunny weather – but you can when it’s raining, Ayrton Senna once said. There is another saying...

My B, my destination… During my coaching talks I hear very often about what people want to be, what they want to do, where they want to...

What a dream... Se si sogna da soli, è solo un sogno. Se si sogna insieme, è la realtà che comincia. When you dream a dream alone, it...

Get up When you fall, get up., the saying goes. Getting up only one time more than falling down, makes you a winner. Long story short...

A company does live from selling the products not from producing them!

Apple monster In my first children book “Where is the green button?” there is an apple planet where a little girl lives. She is scared of...

APPLE PLANET (as a reference to the blog "HORIZONS ARE NOT GIVEN. THEY NEED TO BE TAKEN.") The next morning, Pepe woke up first. In all...

Olive tree My neighbor loves plants. She has so many of them. And, I think they love her, too, as they grow and grow and grow so nicely....

How come… Recently, I was coaching a senior manager. In the first session he had to pick three visuals that best reflect his situation,...

My young colleague One of my young colleagues asked me once: Jan, how does the new come into the world? I asked him: What do you mean? He...