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Storycolors: Wade through the Wobbly

1 month ago | Geen categorie

Being a coach I know the value of thinking things through out loud with someone who is good at asking questions. So I know I should do it, and yet… the cobbler’s shoes syndrom happens so easily. Therefore, now that I have started Storycolors I have to force myself to do it, and what better [&hellip...
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Storycolors, the beginning of a journey

1 month ago | Storycolors

Last week, over lunch, almost unnoticeably, I was part of a major milestone. To the other people in the restaurant nothing special seemed to be happening. Two people sat talking, spooning up a green soup and one was typing things into her laptop. And yet it was a big moment, because by definition beginnings are [&hellip...
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My new book is out – in Dutch: Bangschool (Fearschool)

5 months ago | Geen categorie

This week is the week of the childrensbook in Holland and it also saw the launch of my newest book, a book for 11+ kids called Fearschool or in Dutch ‘Bangschool’. It basically is a mysterious story about a 12 year old who gets accepted at a strange school called Fearschool – even though he [&hellip...
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Have you made your call a gift?

10 months ago | THNK

We are in a storytelling workshop. Not just any storytelling, mind you. We are telling stories that move to act. These are stories that aim to make the audience get up and do something. Ayana Johnson, executive director of the Waitt Institute, an NGO for ocean preservation, has just finished her story and we are debriefing it with [&hellip...
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Innovation should be messy

1 year ago | Geen categorie

Running a 4-day innovation workshop at Stanford University last week, things got messy but still in a structured way...
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The other side of the stick: How to receive feedback

1 year ago | THNK

“Do you think a person can get too much feedback?” – He had come up to me during drinks after a THNK evening session, on one of those nights where there seems to be no barriers to the topic of conservation. He was one of our younger participants, certainly a few years under the average [&hellip...
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Need for creative leadership

1 year ago | THNK

There is a need for creative leadership that is capable of dancing with complexity and ambiguity. This need is driven by 3 factors: The world is changing, business is changing, people are changing. Creative leadership is the ability to create and realize innovative solutions especially in the face of structurally complex or changing situations....
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What is creative leadership

1 year ago | Recent Thoughts

Creative leadership means more than just pushing innovation and being on the look out for new ideas and having sufficient of a start-up mentality to get things done. At the core the change has to do with what we know. Our old models of leadership were based on the idea that there is a right [&hellip...
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Orchestrating creative teams

1 year ago | THNK

“Come up with something new! And make it good.” Have you ever said that? More and more leaders nowadays make this demand. They need something new and they need it to be good. Mostly because their circumstances are changing radically and their organization hasn’t. Or maybe simply because that is the kind of market they [&hellip...
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The rewards of a story

2 years ago | Recent Thoughts

Last week I was moderating an event for the economic board of Amsterdam. About 300 people had come to hear three star creative entrepreneurs of Amsterdam, Ben van Berkel, Renny Ramakers and Duncan Stutterheim. As a moderator I did something that intriguingly enough led to quite a bit of discussion afterwards at the bar. The main question seemed...
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