Categorie: Uncategorized
-
stop reading the news
I am a heavy news consumer (mostly print and radio for pleasure; television and online for work) and I am a news manager. I had seen the book before and somehow just neglected it; stop reading the news, really ?! But last time I was in Payot Geneva I could no longer resist and bought…
-
Van Morrison
What’s wrong with this picture ? It’s just having on the wall So you can go right back to sleep And just forget about it all, because I’m not hat person anymore I’m living in the present time Baby don’t you understand I’ve left all that jive behind – from, What’s wrong with this picture…
-
from Da Vinci to modern Asian art in just one day
I just had a few days of holidays in Milan. Well … holidays was not the plan but an exit to meet my husband in a zone which was quarantine friendly for travellers between Belgium, Switzerland and Italy. So the capital of Lombardy, hit so hard by the pandemic in March, was now a fringe…
-
fitzgerald & defoe by leibovitz
I am an art lover. Have always been, but since I met the man of my life more than 20 years ago my taste has refined. Sleeping with an art historian has an impact. We have come at a stage when we only need the blink of an eye to decide what the two of…
-
reading leads to writing
Summer holidays are no different than New Year’s Eve : you make resolutions. I made one today : to read and/or write for a at least two hours per day. Newspapers, magazines, work related papers, emails (private and professional) don’t count. Only reading that is rooted in serendipity counts. What I mean is, books that…
-
empowerment leadership
I love it when someone nails down something that is lingering in my head. In the May – June 2020 edition of the Harvard Business Review I came across an interesting summary of the book “Unleashed : the Unapolegetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone around You” by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss. I copy here…
-
Vivian Gornick
What a long road this novel and I have traveled together – and with so many stops along the way. I had never heard of Vivian Gornick until I picked up one of her books at my bookshop Passa Porta. The title “Unfinished Business. Notes of a Chronic Re-reader” appealed to me. Curious enough to…
-
the question book
I have always been a fan of Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tshäpeler and the books they published together. Both the “The Decision Book” and “The Communication Book” are within reach at my Geneva office and I consult with them regularly, especially when I have to unravel complex issues. Their formula is simpel : they present…
-
Geert Verbruggen, artist
I just finished reading “How to be an artist”, by the acclaimed writer Jerry Saltz, art critic for The New Yorker. I don’t consider myself to be an artist – I do some writing – but I definitely love art. Reading about the arts and listening to art podcasts have become a nice way to…
-
I have my weekend back
We all are experiencing life with the virus. Even in the areas where COVID19 is not (officially) present it is all over the news. And the buzz word over the last few days is “the new normal”. The what ?! Reporting is shifting from factual coverage – reporting the facts – to making a broader…
JEAN PHILIP DE TENDER 