If you know everything in advance

Last week, my brother reminded me of something our father used to say. It goes more or less like “If you would know everything in advance, you would only need […]

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A collaborative Christmas!

A lot has been written about collaboration in the past year. Amongst others by me in this weekly column. Thank you for being a loyal reader! A general definition of […]

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What should you stop doing?

Busy, busy, busy, everyone is always very busy! Sometimes it seems that December is the busiest month of them all. Then we enter January, and many people start with all […]

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Are you getting better?

In some professions, it is very easy to see if you are getting better at what you do. A decline in errors, an increase in results, the measurement might be […]

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What to do when your executive sponsor is arrested

The Renault Nissan alliance is a great example of a cross cultural long standing alliance. Created in 1999, the alliance is constructed in a way whereby Renault and Nissan work […]

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Takeaways from the 2018 European Alliance Conference

“Why are you here” was a question I faced the first day of the ASAP European Alliance Conference in Amsterdam. It is not that I questioned myself, it was someone […]

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The toxic elements in your alliance and team

At the moment of writing this column, I am leaving our new house behind for a day. After we bought the house, it turned out to have asbestos in the […]

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What’s next?

Do you ever wonder what is next for you in your journey? I do, in so many situations. Take for instance the journey of our home improvement project for our […]

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Getting to know each other in alliance creation

Last week I facilitated an alliance creation workshop between two organizations who are in the process of creating a new alliance. These organizations have a long history of working together […]

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How to bring your alliance organization to the next level?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple recipe for alliance success? That thought might have crossed your mind once or twice when in alliances. However, alliances are not that […]

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There is nothing wrong with her, is there?

“There is nothing wrong with her, is there?” Whenever I start a coaching engagement and do a round of stakeholder interviews, there is almost always someone who asks me this […]

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Small and Medium Enterprises: How do you create alliances?

Most of the examples of strategic alliances and partnership I use in my work are examples from the corporate world. Large organizations that work together with large organizations. These examples […]

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That's all!

That's all!