A fabulous time of the year!

Time flies! Sometimes it feels like only yesterday, that we had to get used to writing 2016 instead of 2015 and now 2017 is already around the corner. The year […]

Read on

The mirror of your collaborative success

How often do you look into the mirror? Every person looks at least multiple times a day in the mirror. We check our hair, our clothing, our make-up, our beard, […]

Read on

How to progress on the journey of your success

Now and then I need to bring my trusted Volvo to a mechanic for its regular maintenance. Over time I have tried a couple of mechanics: some worked well and […]

Read on

Who is the Uber of your industry?

During a lunch conversation with an alliance executive of a large corporation, we brainstormed in the broadest sense about strategic options and the question “what should your company do yourself, […]

Read on

Bridging the culture differences in a team

In business we often talk about teamwork and building teams as if it is a normal behavior that everyone understands. In practice, it appears that building and working in teams […]

Read on

What should your CEO know about strategic alliances?

A few years ago, I walked into a client’s office where I found him in a pretty upset state. Let’s call the client John. Immediately after I had entered his […]

Read on

The forgotten element of collaboration

When we talk about collaboration in alliances, we often talk about procedures, tools, and best practices. To some extent, that is good. After all, research has shown that companies who […]

Read on

Collaboration: I vs. You and We

Last week I listened to an interview with Ron Wallace about his book “Leadership lessons from a UPS driver”, with the subtitle “delivering a culture of we, not me.” Like […]

Read on

Collaboration is everywhere: 3 ways to accelerate

Collaboration is everywhere: We are approaching a collaborative networked economy where no company can go it alone. Partnerships will become of greater importance than they already are today; at least, […]

Read on

Practice makes perfect

Last week I had a conversation with my son Laurens about the differences and similarities between sports coaching and executive coaching. Laurens started to coach the women eight competition team […]

Read on

How doing less can lead to better results

On the Camino to Santiago de Compostela back in 2013, I walked 900 km in 28 days. This weekend I just returned from walking 275 km on the Camino in […]

Read on

High performance leaders take ownership

Recently I had three conversations in one week that made me think about the topic of high performance leaders a bit more. The first conversation was about high performance organizations […]

Read on

That's all!

That's all!