Categorie: management
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why disconnect?
En réalité on dirait qu’il y a deux hommes en moi qui se disputent sans cesse: un homme du Nord, féru d’ordre et de discipline, et un homme du Sud couché dans son hamac sous un figuier, tandis que la Méditerranée vient lécher la rive à ses pieds. by Georges Simenon, “Des Traces de Pas”…
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coming out, now and then
I have been gay all my life. Don’t recall the exact time when I realised I felt more attracted to men but I guess I must have been twelve or thirteen. I came out when I was nineteen. My mother was very supportive, and so was everybody else. Friends and family, and later my colleagues…
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a team building recipe
I stopped reading management books some time ago. Sure, I still read summaries, pick up the occasional book, and I am a big fan of the Harvard Business Reviews publications and their archives. Tip : they have an excellent subscription model for only 14 euro per month. Over time, management books have been replaced by…
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it was a good year …
Before you comment on the title of this piece, I agree : it was an unprecedented year and bad in many, many ways. But every coin has its flip side and 2020 was extremely good in some ways too. Apart from realising that my bubble is the right one and a very pleasant want to…
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executive coaching
I often pretend that as a manager I don’t achieve anything apart from creating teams that perform. I say it jokingly but there is a lot of truth in it. My personal opinion is that a manager can only be as good as his team and can never outperform them. So the more expertise you…
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reinventing organizations
I have read plenty of management books (perhaps too many) and am acquainted with most of the (theoretical) models. Recently I didn’t read a lot however. Shortlisted was a book I came across a few years ago “Reinventing Organizations” by Frederic Laloux. I didn’t have the time to read this turf, but now there is…
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a mental note
Wat mijn carrière betreft heb ik nergens spijt van. Behalve misschien dat ik tien jaar geleden geen baas van de VRT was geworden. Er is in dit land geen enkele plek waar zoveel talent samenzit als bij de openbare omroep. And they don’t go for the dollar. Zeker bij de radio hebben de mensen een…
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de x-factor in leiderschap
Een paar jaren geleden maakte ik tijdens een opleiding interne coach kennis met Ann Noppen en Katleen Joris van Consense. Een paar maanden geleden werd ik door hen gecontacteerd met de vraag om mee te werken aan een kwalitatief onderzoek hoe leiders denken en voelen inzetten binnen hun dagdagelijkse uitdagingen in hun business. Vorige week…
JEAN PHILIP DE TENDER 