29 September
2010
Coming from Central Europe and not being a huge climbing or surfing fan it is perhaps not surprising I never heard of Yvon Chouinard or Patagonia before. It was only a few years back I bumped into his bestselling book “Let my people go surfing”. I had to read it. It was love at a [...]
25 September
2010
This really surprised me. When googling “freedom at work”, one of the first things that comes out is this famous nazi slogan – German phrase that can be translated as “work liberates” or “work makes one free”. Not much else is popping out, really. Yes, there are few sites dealing with the first two levels [...]
19 September
2010
“Dead Poets Society” is a 1989 film starring Robin Williams and directed by Peter Weir. Set in 1959 at a conservative and aristocratic boys prep school, it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students to change their lives of conformity through his teaching of poetry and literature.” That’s what Wikipedia says [...]
8 September
2010
There was a conference I spoke at with the following subtitle: “Is there any new vision in HR?” The life of corporations has always been fascinating to me. So I certainly cannot avoid commenting on this matter here on my blog. The life of a unit that so fundamentally affects most of our lives is [...]
2 September
2010
I asked some people whether they would be bothered if a drop of someone else’s urine were in a bowl of their favorite soup. Nine out of ten said that they wouldn’t even touch it. That seems logical when talking about eating, but let’s look at it as a metaphor. Imagine that the soup symbolizes [...]
