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The Vlerick business school did a nice event for expats some weeks ago about the process of decision making. Prof Kerstin Fehre made us realize the amount of decisions we take every day. To improve the process of taking a decision, she said we should not evaluate our decision based on the outcome: A decision Read More …
Some time ago I attended a PWI event and Elisabeth Van Den Bergh was the special guest on this occasion. As an expert in communications, she gave us very valuable information to do public presentations. The 3 key components in any communication, she said, are: Confidence: how you convey the message Content: the message itself Read More …
The feedback fallacy article from Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall challenges our actual assumptions on feedback. Th later tendencies in management go for transparency and openness to constructive criticism. People are encouraged to give and receive feedback regularly on the assumption that this will drive them towards excellency. The authors point out that studies show Read More …
I just participated in the selection process of the Harvard Business Review “McKinsey award for best HBR article” for 2019. The three articles nominated for the prize where very interesting, but the one by Alison Wood and Leslie K. John caught my attention because it was about questions. Are you good at asking questions? Do you Read More …
That was the final message of last Meetup I attended organized by the Fearless Female Founders group. Madeleine Alvarez, an experienced Business Development Consultant and Trainer, presented us the Personal Model Canvas to help us come with a clear definition of our offer. The aim of her presentation was: Learn how to package your services and products Read More …
I went the other day to an Agile Serious Games session organized by Wemanity, and we did nice exercises to illustrate the values and advantages of Agile Management. If you’re not familiar with the expression ‘serious games’, it’s used when playing a game that has a professional purpose, that makes the participants experience a problem Read More …
I went to an open event at Vlerick, and Prof. Miguel Meuleman gave us a talk on the Entrepreneurial Mindset. He gave us good tips to find business ideas. Based on the six-year study behind the book The innovator’s DNA, he mentioned these 4 discovery activities that the authors have identified as the ones in Read More …
I am on the Advisory Council of the Harvard Business Review. Last week I took part in the selection process to choose one article to be the winner of HBR’s most prominent prize, the McKinsey Award. The 3 pre-selected articles were very interesting, bringing advice to companies on what their C-Suite executives must focus (one was Read More …
I loved this article from the Harvard Business Review: Managing Our Hub Economy,by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani, the authors explain in a very clear way what we are already experiencing in the last decade already at the macro-level economy. The global economy is coalescing around a few digital superpowers. We see unmistakable evidence that Read More …
I loved the article What’s your best innovation bet? by Melissa Schilling in this summer issue of the Harvard Business Review, as it has always been very hard to guess the future: Melissa Schilling says that “By mapping a technology’s past, you can predict what future customers will want.” For that she explains her method: 1 Read More …