This morning before perusing my business mailbox a tweet by the omnipresent tweep @GuyKawasaki struck a chord with me. It’s one of these awesome TED videos that makes one sit back, relax and fully absorb the message. Bay Area hotelier ‘joie de vivre’ Chip Conley argues that we as business leaders, investors and politicians are taught […]
In the midst of the perhaps biggest environmental catastrophe ever – the oil spill in the Mexican Gulf – sustainability demonstrably rising on the executive agenda provides some inspiration. Even in this economic downturn companies now see the business benefit of ‘going green’ both in terms of bottom line cost reduction opportunities and top line […]
Recently I had the opportunity to attend the Great Place to Work event in Amsterdam. This platform brought together nominees for the GPtW award, i.e. the best employers in the land. My 5 key take-aways from the session, in random order: In the category medium-sized companies there was only 1 public organisation, i.e. the RGS […]
Two recent events brought me new insights into European (German especially) and US differences when it comes to social media. A SKYPE phonecall with a German psychologist-turned-market researcher (now residing in San Francisco/ USA and married to a former Capgemini colleague of mine) as well as a private trip to the capital of Europe, Berlin. […]
The stormy progress social media have made and are still making in the world around us and in business in particular, has intrigued me to a great extent for a considerable length of time now. As I believe my earlier posts have underlined, I am a firm believer in its value in amongst others communications, […]