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The organisation chart

Oh yummie, I really love these charts. You can actually see who is being paid more than the other level. And sometimes you can find email addresses and phone numbers, right next to the title. Handy. I have worked in quite a few big companies that make tens if not hundreds of millions in turnover. What is scary is that in none of them I heard the word customer first, but always “the…

Leadership

Ask any mid to high level manager – the core of a company – what the difference is between management and leadership. Then sit back and enjoy either a discourse of an hour straight from “management 101” or observe the stuttering generalist mumblings of someone who really never thought about it. “Management is about doing things right and leadership is about doing the right thing!” Sure. Now turn…

The company

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don’t much care where. The Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go. Alice: …so long as I get somewhere. The Cat: Oh, you’re sure to do that, if only you walk long enough. I really can’t talk about my work past or present. It is and was…

Dreams

I dream a lot and can often remember them in detail after waking up. Topics range from pretty violent reactions to people who are basically nagging me (now there’s a reflection to my work), naked women walking around (no worries there) and some weird almost philosophical discussions. Last night I was in a conversation with my wife and realised that I was not totally sure if I was dreaming or…

Dancing a Nancy

Falling out of a world of lies,Could I have been dancing a Nancy?Could I have been anyone other than me? Dave Matthews got it right. I can dream about being someone else, but I am who I am. And if, I could be dancing Nancies. And with some soul searching, I am. Really. So I still am who I am. Dancing with a Nancy. If you don’t get it, check her – that being Nancy – on the internet. I can…

Fear

I taught myself two mantras, or perhaps “questions I regularly ask myself” that helped me getting on to another platform altogether. They’re simple. Like most good things in life. “Why am I doing this?” is the first one. You’d be amazed how often you do things without realising that you actually don’t want to do them in the first place. Like an automatism. Or better; like a bumper car. You hit…

Sunflower from my backyard …