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Lost. How To Choose Who To Vote For?

I am lost. Or confused. Or at least something non-expert-like. In September we have new elections in The Netherlands. Our current ruling parties cannot work together anymore. I always vote. I think it’s important. As years go by I find it harder to choose which party to vote for. And we have a lot of …

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Orange.

I don’t like football. I am talking about the real one. The one Americans call “soccer”. And still. The European Championship is starting in Poland and Ukraine in less than a month and I am becoming chauvinistic. I am emphasizing to myself I’m Dutch and what that means. In this case it means 1) I …

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The Set Designer And The Storyteller. Yes. You Need Them.

If we are really serious about the importance of the environment we work in and the stories we tell, we should have a Set Designer and a Storyteller on our projects. Yes, I am totally serious. So is Daphne Depassé, an Amsterdam based solution designer. As I live 20km from Amsterdam, you could say we …

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An Ice Skating Track And Opportunities To Start Conversations.

Yes, we have snow. Like almost everybody else. The neighbors created an ice-skating track by flooding a small field. The ice is not perfect. But … it’s just perfect. People get together. The field of frozen water is just a good excuse to get out and have some fun. It’s not that if there isn’t …

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The Project Story Circle. Talking About Transitions.

“Once a photograph of the earth, taken from the outside is available, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” – Sir Fred Hoyle in 1948. What do you draw when you are visualizing a project on a whiteboard? I draw an arrow from left to right that represents a …