Categorie: me
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snapshot
I am of a generation who still remembers what it meant to buy a film roll. You had to choose between 12, 24, or 36 “exposures.” And there was always that difficult choice to make between Kodak and Fuji. They said the first had warmer colors; the latter had a cooler, more green-blue feel. At the…
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a healthy business life
I became a junior manager in my thirties. With the appointment came plenty of business lunches and dinners. The result: I gained 8 kilograms; my husband Filip – although he didn’t join these lunches – 12. That lasted for a year or three until he decided that enough was enough. So overnight, we changed our…
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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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nomads love no man’s land
The last 18 months I haven’t been travelling a lot. At the heart of the pandemic I did only a handful of flights compared to the 100+ per year I used to have. Now I’m back on the road and it feels good. Although I feel particularly at home in Geneva and Brussels, I love…
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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 Over time, management books have been replaced by…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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mindfull op reis
Door mijn nieuwe job ben ik bijna constant de baan op. Zelden slaap ik meer dan drie dagen op een rij in hetzelfde bed. Vanmorgen werd ik wakker in Parijs. Het bed in Genève en Dubai is nog warm. De volgende weken staan ondermeer Praag, Rome, Beijing, Frankfurt, Tunis, Orsières, Montenegro, Ajaccio, Stockholm, … en…
JEAN PHILIP DE TENDER 