What is defensive driving and how it helps fleet managers Defensive driving is the key mindset that will keep your fleet safe, vehicles in order and drivers in check. And it will save you and all fleet drivers the embarrassment of a typical dressing down by the interstate and highway police. Being a mindset, defensive driving incorporates [...]
About The Rose
By October 21st, 2007, underWhy Music gives Soul to the Universe and Wings to the Mind
By October 18th, 2007, underI have been a lover of Music since I was born. It was a big surprise to my parents when I wanted to buy gramophone records of Opera’s when I was thirteen. My parents where not educated in music but they loved it. Everybody in my family was singing, most of them in a choir. [...]
How Socrate changed the Cycle of Western Civilization
By October 16th, 2007, underMany people Project their Knowledge of the Now to History. They Think that People Thought the same Thoughts many years ago. To understand the Spirit of The Time we have to understand the Historical Context People lived in. One way of doing this is to look at a shared foundation and study the Historical Variations [...]
Prepare Yourself for a Spectaculair Change
By October 16th, 2007, underAbout A year ago I was writing a strategy for a company. Suddenly I got the idea I was writing something I had already written a long time ago. I got the feeling that “History was repeating itself”. I started to investigate and suddenly I found a Pattern. The pattern I found was the Kondratiev [...]
Using the Cycle to define a Strategy or Don’t Eat Old Meat
By October 13th, 2007, underI am asked to help to define a Strategy again. Defining a strategy is something I like the most. I will share some experience.
The most important part of a Strategy is to be become aware of your Potential. If you want to drive very fast but you are not able to buy a car the Strategy to drive a car is a bad strategy.
Many people and of course companies are defining unrealistic targets. This creates Stress and when you are stressed you are unable to see the Facts.
About the Game of Chess
By October 12th, 2007, underI want to tell you something about Games. What I want to show is that behind many Games there is a simple structure. If we understand this structure we are more aware of “What the game is telling You” or “What Game is playing ME” or “How can I leave the Game and create my [...]
Why Knowledge Management Advisors are Unable to Manage Their Own Knowlegde
By October 11th, 2007, underTo my surprise many people are still trying to implement Knowledge-Management. I thought everybody was convinced that after almost 12 years of failing people would understand there is something wrong. I was involved from the beginning. Knowledge Management came out of Data- and Database Management. At that time I believed the human was a Machine. [...]
How the Merger of ABN AMRO and Fortis could change History (Part 3)
By October 9th, 2007, underBanking is really very simple. It became very complicated when the computer was introduced. What need to be done is to move back to simplicity again. If somebody is able to do this the possibilities are tremendous. If ABN AMRO and Fortis are able to recreate a simple bank again they could Change History.
To keep this blog simple you have to believe the essence of Banking is the Movement of Cash-Flows. A cash-flow is a transaction between two actors.
