EuroMillions offers to play the lottery twice a week and the jackpot rolls over when there wasn’t a winner. At times the winning amount can reach close to 200 Mio Euro. The odds are ridiculously poor and being an ex-trader I shouldn’t have invested a penny. I DID. I even had the lousy excuse of […]
Sunday Afternoon Blues For years I couldn’t wait for Monday to go to work. In fact, I checked rates Sunday late night to see the Foreign Exchange opening in Asia and calculated what it meant for my clients. At that time, The Blues was more Friday at 10pm when NY markets closed. I had been […]
Speak every word as it would be your last I met Ben Zander at the TitanSummit 2017 in Toronto and apart from his brilliant, fascinating presentation on leadership I had been touched by one of his stories where a brother and his sister who had already lost their parents been on a cattle train to […]
Maybe you are at a beach, in a thinned out office or simply a little bit less stressed because it’s summer holidays. Here you will find 6 weeks of short, reflective exercises ending on the 27th of August. Weekend I reflection exercise (23rd of July) What is your big dream or goal? If you could […]
Do you work in sales? When was the last time your client said No to your proposal? If you don’t hear a No almost daily you have either a unique product, or you aren't doing your job as a sales person and have a conversation. If you have a bad product you can only improve […]
Sounds familar? You come home from work. A bad day. Your wife/husband, keen to talk to you, starts a conversation. 2 minutes in…. She/He asks: “Are you listening?” You: ”Of course, darling.” She/He: ”…and what is your view on it?” You don’t have a clue. You heard her/him talking but you weren’t paying any intention. […]
“Sometimes it’s better to be silent than to open your mouth and remove all doubt” Not sure if it’s Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain, or if the quote has its root in the Bible, it’s a quote I like. When was the last time when you were keen to speak up just for the sake […]
5 hopes for the future of banking After the financial crisis in 2008 we had a great chance to change a system that turns out to be rotten in various areas and beneficial to a few who understand how to run the system mainly for themselves. Banks survive on governmental bail out and the taxpayer […]
Do you know the feeling? Month by month and year by year passes and you cannot even remember where you spent your holidays or what you did on New Year’s eve a few years ago. You probably live the same year again and again with no changes in your job. No transformation on anything insight, […]
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw) Did you consciously notice the reactions of the people around you when you have started or about to start something new? In that very […]