Often we require a new approach to jumpstart our creative thinking. A peculiar yet effective way to do this is to use the Book of the Dead creative thinking technique. This technique is based on forcing our brain to associate new ideas […]
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In their book From Sumer to Rome, authors Richard Gabriel and Karen Metz made a fascinating observation: If Roman body armor-which was sophisticated, effective and invented almost two millennia ago-had been used at the battles of the American Revolution, the average […]
A few years ago, Amazon released a fascinating statistic: Almost 85% of all books about professional or personal development are gifts for other people. Think of the last time you received a book about professional or personal development from someone […]
The Zeigarnik effect is ‘the tendency to experience intrusive thoughts about an objective that was once pursued and left incomplete.’ Or, in other words, we remember better that which is unfinished or incomplete. We sometimes experience this effect when we are interrupted […]
Would you buy a product which has only five star reviews? I recently wanted to buy a new ring light. I’m no expert in ring lights, so I was looking at ratings and reviews. Then it dawned on me: Perhaps […]
What does your ideal day look like? It’s a powerful question I have asked to countless executives, business owners and professionals. Eyes light up and with enthusiasm they start describing the details of their own peak performance; work which doesn’t […]
‘Wirecard collapses into insolvency.’ This was the headline of the Financial Times some months ago. Wirecard is a large fin-tech company, which seems to have committed a 2 billion dollar financial fraud, right under the watchful eyes of government officials […]
One of the strangest phenomena in chemistry is a supercritical fluid: A substance, which is at a temperature and pressure above its critical point, suddenly gains almost magical properties: Liquid and gas phases no longer exist, it passes through solids like a gas, and it dissolves other […]
A major reason why good businesses fail, or professional careers get stuck, is outsourced ownership: The reliance on external factors for business or personal success. Recently, I was working with a client to develop a new business strategy. It became clear […]
Now that businesses are re-opening in many places, here are twelve leverage points for professional and business success, which are currently used by my clients to accelerate their career, business or organization. Can you help struggling competitors by making a deal: Absorb […]
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