The only thing sure in life is change. This rings truer than ever today. Our world is undergoing rapid societal and technological shifts. New markets are opening up with a whole new set of consumers. Many of the biggest companies today, barely existed 10 years ago....

Als leidinggevende bent u niet alleen verantwoordelijk voor het mededelen van goed, positief nieuws. Ook het vertellen van slecht, negatief nieuws behoort tot uw taken. Zoals het aankondigen van organisatieveranderingen. Dat hoeft overigens niet per se negatief te...

It is a core task of the board of directors of a company to oversee the senior executive of the company to ensure their leadership is strong. But boards of directors are frequently less involved than they should be in onboarding new management, and the result is that...

Een mentor, dat is toch iets voor start-ups en young professionals? Ja, maar ook voor bestaande bedrijven en ervaren managers, managing directors en ondernemers. De top bereiken is een uitdaging, maar aan de top blijven is evengoed een challenge. Een mentor in handen...

Over the last years, work has changed. Collaboration has become more flexible. People co-operate in changing partnerships, using their expertise temporarily on a specific job within a cross-functional project. Then move on to the next. Even between partner companies,...

In life, we tend to focus on beginnings and endings, be it of relationships, going to college and new jobs. However, the most critical part is often what happens in-between. This rule goes for a CEO as well. As a new CEO, you typically start with a clear agenda of...

A strategy is a roadmap for your company. It shows you the way to achieve your mission. However, the roadmap won't do much if your car isn’t working. Take a look at all the recent trouble at Tesla and its Model 3. Tesla needs to increase production of its Model 3 to...

The leader was once was a patriarchal person, an authority figure. There was a clear top-down hierarchy. You had the worker bees and their boss. Speaking out as a worker was an unwritten no-no, just like asking for a workers’ opinion. This leadership style was...

As a company, you want to be winning the innovation game. This easier said than done. Your market environment is continuously changing. New technologies arrive, customers' needs evolve, global competition increases and disruptive startups turn your industry upside...

Workplaces these days depend on their subject-matter experts to steer them in the right direction. These star employees use their knowledge to advise on a variety of business decisions and to create innovative strategic plans that help organizations hit their numbers...

The saying goes; It's better to give than to receive. And though we all probably like to receive a thoughtful gift, deep down we know that we also love to give. That happy face of your partner when you surprise them with flowers or tickets to see their favorite team...

Every company wants to be innovative. Discovering new products and services, or improving existing ones, before the competition does. Innovation is speeding up exponentially in the last few years. From breakthroughs in AI to huge rockets that launch satellites and...

“Question everything”, Albert Einstein once said. His advice made sense as most people do not ask many questions in conversations. Yet, we can learn so much from it. Those people who do ask questions, tend to be more liked. We all remember conversations at birthday...

The Industrial Revolution has changed our way of life. It has impacted everybody and upset societal hierarchies, changed business and overthrown governments. Industries rose from water power, turned to steam power and then got hooked up to electricity. Now the next...