At times, Europe feels like a museum of its own success. The streets are lined with monuments to past prosperity; the meeting rooms filled with committees trying to preserve it. And yet, there is one persistent problem that no taskforce, green deal or recovery fund seems able to solve: structural economic growth. Germany, France and Italy, three of Europe’s largest economies, have for years struggled with stagnating productivity and sluggish technological progress. The decisi

Personal communication, nowadays fashionably called "storytelling", gathering the best people around you and visualising the goal on the...

Holidays are there, also, to create distance from the daily grind. To take time for yourself and your loved ones, to recover and to...

For several years now, I've been sending book title suggestions for the winter and summer holidays, and the responses have always been...

Organisational culture – or 'corporate culture' – is a much-discussed topic. Various studies underscore its importance. But what exactly...

At the beginning of this month, in April, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, managed to plunge the global economy into a...

It is striking that the use of LLMs – large language models – remains unstructured in so many organisations. Or, indeed, not used at all....

Previously, I wrote about families with businesses and issues surrounding succession to next generations. For example, in my newsletter...

" Reinventing Organizations " by Frederic Laloux has been featured in my newsletters before. Laloux's vision on the development of...

As the calendar year draws to a close, I am pleased to share a selection of book titles that might be inspiring, engaging,...

The end of the year is approaching. This is often a time to reflect on how the past year has gone and to consider what the new year may...

Recently, I spoke with someone who leads a family office. There are numerous variations on this theme.  Nicolai Tangen , the head of...

Welcome back after the summer holidays. I hope you have had a wonderful summer time, both for yourself and with your loved ones.  Now,...

Q2 is almost behind us. Time for a report. But not a financial one or anything like that, rather a qualitative one about what’s happening...

Loyal readers will recognise this particular bugbear of mine. Past successes are no guarantee for the future! How often have I...

Bear with me. I'm no strategy consultant, let alone a macro-economist. And by nature, I'm certainly not a pessimist! But… previously in...

Q1 is nearly over. Let's take a moment to reflect. Do you still have the priorities for the year clearly in mind? In other words, refresh...

Many family-owned businesses grapple with the issue of succession. This question is becoming increasingly urgent not only in the...

In my last newsletter of 2023, I already wrote that I wish you all the best for this new year. I gladly repeat that now, as we can never...

“I don’t like Mondays”, The Boomtown Rats A Nummer 1 hit in 1979. Not without reason. In the US over half the people hate their jobs....