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anxiety – covid19
In these stay-home times, reading is a welcome distraction. But clearly you read differently. Covid19 is never far away. I just finished “How to Think More Effectively. A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity” from The School of Life (no credited author, always anonymous). I want to share the following section with you. Write…
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inlevingsvermogen
Thuis praten Filip en ikzelf vaak over empathie. En dat hangt meestal vast aan een concreet geval. Dat ik wel, meestal geen empathie heb voor een bepaalde persoon in een bepaalde situatie. Of omgekeerd, dat hij geen empathie heeft voor iets wat ik meemaak. Als ik hem over de middag wel eens bel en zeg…
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erudiet
Disclaimer : I have been writing this blog in English for the last few years. “My job brings me in an international network”, I told my mother in law on xMas eve when she complained she preferred me writing in Dutch. Marc Didden’s new book “Een redelijk leven” (impossible to translate in English) is a…
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Day One, for ambiverts
My all time favourite app is Day One. I stated before that ” it is not about social media, but about media being social”. We live in an era where we share (our) stories. An era where sharing looks like the only option : updates on Facebook, selfies on Instagram, statements on Twitter, business affairs…
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Alitalia ” Non e possibile ! “
Friday, late afternoon. I have spent most of the week in Rome for the Prix Italia and plenty of EBU side meetings. The weather was just great (28 degrees and sunny) and the food … too Italian. I was looking forward to head to Brussels to catch up with friends and family. I arrived just…
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lie with me (by philippe besson)
I try to read authors in their original language. As my favorite books are mostly Anglo-Saxon, Flemish and French that is not an issue. Books in Switzerland are at least 10 % more expensive and my shop there Payot does not offer me the inspiration I need. So each time I visit Brussels I buy…
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Miles & Less
I am what they call “a frequent traveller”, someone who travels a lot. I don’t keep track of it but my estimate is that I easily do more than 140 flights per year. Most of them for work. That is a big footprint and I do my best to compensate. But that is for a…
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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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space, my 2018 word of the year
It is this time of the year when lists are published and when the word of the year is chosen. According to Oxford the 2018 word of the year is “toxic”; Collins selected “single-use” and van Dale, in my native Flemish-Dutch language, picked “moordstrookje”. Don’t even try to Google translate it ! I just finished…
JEAN PHILIP DE TENDER 