Everyone wants to maximize profit. Companies want to make as much money as they can, employees want to have the biggest salary possible, entrepreneurs want their companies to be worth as much as possible. In their search for profits everyone has the tendency to offer as less as possible while trying to increase their profit …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Save yourself for later
We live in a fast moving world. Everything needs to be done now, to be done fast and good. There is no time to wait, no time to lose as some might say. We have a tendency to rush things under this pressure from others and from ourselves. This might be a good thing if …
What are you really here for
Most of the time people tend to use the suit and tie approach when going to events/ trainings/ presentations for which they have no clue as to what is going on. They have the impression that if they do that they will immediately seem focused on whatever it’s going on. From the same dress code …
The secret behind the power of storytelling
Whatever message you want to send, no matter what information you have to share or what people you have to convince, the best way to do it is by telling them a story. Forget about bullet points slides, about facts and figures, about fancy words and get to work on your story. It does not …
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On the road
I write this while on a 2 hours journey by train. As I stay here and watch people around me I observe almost the same pattern I see on every travel I make, no matter if by plane, train or anything else. It’s extremely interesting to see what people do while traveling. Some of them …
Understanding creativity
Creativity means making connections that other people don’t. In order to achieve this you have to exploit how the human brain works; letting the cognitive part of the brain relax and allowing the intuitive part work at its full potential. Creativity is imagination. Creativity is having enough dots to connect. It means having done a lot of different things, …