Frans van der Reep
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“To see what’s in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle”. George Orwell
There is a lot going on in Europe, especially in the south. Crisis, unemployment, poverty and people committing suicide for these reasons. At the same time, lots of change as business logic is changing and mental models seem to shift. [...]
The accelerating power of words…
and how to benefit from them when innovating
“The words we say, will teach…” -Unknown
Whether your company is innovative with its products, its technology or its sales strategies, remember that real innovation must always be accompanied by an equally innovative choice of words. Words and language in general carry [...]
The TomTom effect
To really observe new things you should never stick to the main roads
It’s vacation time!
The ‘TomTom’ (I mean the navigation systems like Tomtom and Garmin in general, not the other products manufactured by the companies with the same name) I am sure will be used in the many foreign [...]
Leaders are from Venus, Managers from Mars.
The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. – Henry Miller
One of the most important business issues in these times of change is the quest for leadership. How do managers become leaders and [...]
The Billing moment -it’s all about your value: don’t hide it if you provide it-
You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring by the hour. -J. Rohn
One of the challenging questions many starting (smallbizz) companies (start-ups) face nowadays, is when, as a supertemp [...]
Get in or lose out: either social business or no business
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live-F. Wittemore
The big change towards ‘customer self care’ and bottom-up self assembled teaming as the coordination principle in companies is rapidly gaining strength.. The customer is about [...]
Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.- David G. Powers
The term digital well-being is obviously nonsense. You can ’do wel’l in or through Internet, but well-being is actually an analogue experience. On the other hand, we can’t deny the huge impact of the Internet on [...]
Is wealth in your mind or in your pocket?
The greatest wealth is to live content with little- Plato
Social media triggers us to put the famous integrity question on the agenda, since lots of decisions taken by companies are obviously visible to everybody because of the transparency of decision-making process and business activities [...]
Selection of papers, interviews and videos/lectures Frans van der Reep
English Books:
About an Analogous Life in a Digital World, Rotterdam 2005
English papers:
BPM:
Designing Process, Looking Back from the Future, CSC Research Services Journal, 2003, p.54-57
HRM&Culture:
Creating or reacting? (2007)
Individual choice or necessity of decision making…
“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” – Buddha
An enormous amount of available information and [...]
