3 tips to catch up when you have too much to read
- Leadership Here are 3 tips you might consider worthwhile to catch up on your reading, with impact.
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How to handle conflict situations
- Durable / Esprit d'équipe / Leadership Dealing with conflict is not easy. Conflict situations tend to be complex. We won’t be able to give a ‘quick and dirty miracle recipe’ in this insight. But we will provide a concept that might prove very helpful.
5 tips to deal with rejection
- Leadership Whether it is your idea that is rejected, or you as a person that feels excluded – rejection is never an easy thing. Yet it is part of life. Here are 5 tips to help you positively deal with rejection.
When can you call yourself ‘successful’?
- Durable / Leadership What is your definition of success? To have the highest status? To be first percentile in every area of life? Life has taught us that one can have a high status yet not feel successful. Here’s a definition of success that helps you live the life you desire the most.
How to make trade-offs that you feel comfortable about
- Durable / Leadership Making difficult trade-offs is so frustrating. It takes a lot of time, often there’s that nagging feeling of doubt, sometimes even guilt, and all of that for an undesired end result: choosing ONE of two options whereas you wanted BOTH. The other day we had one of those typical dilemma’s. We had planned to speak … Suite
How to deal with a strong but difficult person in your team
- Durable / Esprit d'équipe / Leadership Have you ever had a difficult team member? Somebody who was very strong and incredibly driven, yet at the same time turned out to be a true ‘nuisance’ to everybody around. Going solo, criticizing others, not acting upon what was asked,… Here’s how to deal with such a person
To live without loving is not really to live
- Durable / Leadership Molière died of tuberculosis at the age of 51, while on stage in the middle of a live performance of, precisely, Le Malade Imaginaire. Yes, imaginaire. Imagine Molière could have doubled his longevity, that is, living 100 years. How many more genious-pieces would his intelligence and imagination have created? Mozart would correct me, arguing that “Neither intelligence nor imagination, nor both together, go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
Are you a ‘sousou’ or a ‘vivi’ person?
- Leadership People that thrive and feel at full potential tend to be ‘vivi’.Those who are not fulfilled tend to be ‘sousou’. Let us explain.
Succeed in getting to an agreement when all parties have a strong opinion
- Durable / Esprit d'équipe / Leadership We’ve probably all experienced it–many times. Different parties trying to convince each other, without success. Endless debates. People not feeling heard. Usually it ends with frustration. The hierarchical leader takes a decision that is not shared by the others. Or there is no decision, and the situation lingers on, leading to even more irritation. Here’s how to get to an agreement with an underlying bonus…
Book review: ‘End of Stress’ by Don Joseph Goewey
- Durable / Leadership Learn more about this book providing a program to change from ‘easily stressed’ to ‘rarely stressed’.