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It is time for an anti-sameness movement. Let me explain. Yesterday I did a workshop for Qredits about “future-focussed entrepreneurship“.  Part of a 6 series programme where Bernd Mintjes or myself deliver the last and final session, focussing on the 100-day plan. It is a true pleasure to work with entrepreneurs and SMEs and help them to think differently. […]

The power of the mind I am intrigued by the power of the mind. I always was, I have read extensively about self-awareness, Buddhism, spirituality, hypnosis, etc. Books that I will never forget are “The Celestine Prophecy”, “The road less travelled”, “Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East” and “The monk who

Transformation is the new black. It is very hard to do. There’s a lot of things written about transformation. Most of the literature about transformation is a bit simplistic. If you do this, they do this, this, this, and this and you’re sorted. That’s just not ever going to be the case. Organisations are complex systems, where

It is nearly Xmas again, and it is time to reflect (again). I decided to go back through all the blogs I wrote and share some of the lessons I learned this year.  The first blog of 2020 was this. Covering storytelling, the information dashboard and reinvention of your business model. COVID That was before COVID.

I had the pleasure of talking to Chris Obdam, the founder and CEO of Betty Blocks. Not only is he one of the citizen development pioneers, but he is also from the same home village, and his mum and my mum know each other. We use the same barber. The barber is my brother. You

Bosal has tasked us to explore other opportunities, using their extensive knowledge base and their global network of experts, partners, suppliers and clients. The purpose of the challenge is to find partners with innovative ideas, solutions and applications in the area of water and energy. With a particular interest in aqua thermal, water purification and

No-code and low-code tools are the next battle frontier of the tech giants, as proven by Amazon’s recent entry. All the big boys have started to come out to play.  For the last two months, I have been working with Sunil Prashara, the CEO of PMI. He is writing a book about citizen development. I am learning

I only heard about Citizen Development (CD) in the last two months. CD is a reference to people using low or no-code tools to develop software solutions.  Basically, it is like playing lego with software. I am not a geek I am not an IT specialist, coder or software geek, so I am never sure

Writing a business book will change your life. When I moved from Holland to Ireland in 1994, I wrote a book as part of my marketing strategy. It enhanced my reputation, opened doors, immediately allowed me to charge more and got me better and more exciting assignments. Writing that first book set me up for life.

Since two years, I have the pleasure of being part of the tibor.nl coaching team. A bunch of cool dudes with very varied backgrounds (special forces, entrepreneurship, angel investing, innovation, sales), working on your business. Our job is to help people to break through the barrier and move from being self-employed to becoming a long term