Leadership
Remote working requires changes in cooperation and leadership
Due to digitalization, globalization, the need for more personalization, traffic jams and the urge to stop climate change we were already shifting to more hybrid workplaces. A hybrid workplace is a combination of working in the office and working remotely. With a hybrid workplace you can choose how much you work in the office (or…
Read MoreAre Self Managing Organizations a Hype?
In September Heiske participated in a MBA talk with subject ‘Self Managing Organizations’. This conversation was organized by the VU University Amsterdam as Executive Education. You can read the discussed questions and answers about self managing organizations and Heiske’s add ons below. Are Self Managing Organizations a hype? It depends. We see organizations moving to…
Read MoreInterpersonal Struggles? Learn from Married at First Sight!
Jan Hendrik calls it brains-off programs. Broadcasts on tv that do not require a lot of focus and are easy to digest. Although you might label ‘Married at First Sight’ as a brains-off program, it is brains on for sure! Why? In Married at First Sight (2020 Australia version) singles are matched based on science…
Read MoreSupport Employers should provide in this Virtual World
Since March our whole world changed significantly. Suddenly we had to work 100% from home, wether you liked it or not. Heiske: ‘A couple of years ago I wanted to work from home 1 day a week. My manager was not really in favor of people working from home, so I experienced it as a…
Read MoreMy daughter’s personalized sneakers
We just survived the first school week. In this first week my daughter concluded that she did not fit her sneakers for her weekly physical education class anymore. She asked me to buy new ones and had a special request: ‘can we buy just simple white ones and spice them up?’ And so we did……
Read MoreTeam dynamic lessons in Below Deck?
Below Deck is an American reality television series on Netflix. It is about the lives of the crew members who work and reside aboard a mega-yacht during charter season. It shows the crew as they deal with their personal issues in order to make there professional careers work. The crew on a yacht can be…
Read MoreHuman brain not wired for exponential growth
The change we will face in the coming years will be an exponential change. And that is difficult to understand, because our human brain is not wired for exponential growth. We simply can not understand and imagine it. A nice example to experience that is one thought experiment I found in ‘Abundance’ from Kotler. If…
Read MoreLearnings about the contemporary organization
After receiving many requests to share her experiences and insights about the contemporary organization and how to move towards future readiness, Heiske finally responded by making some video’s with her learnings. Below the kick off video. More to come! And yes, for sure we will publish the next video’s here for sure!
Read MoreHow do you Lead your Organization into the Future?
You can take a lead in different ways: Through people With a vision With drive To deliver And although you can take on all the leadership styles mentioned above, you for sure have your preference towards a certain end. Knowing your preferences in style is 1, but you also need to be aware of the…
Read MoreSetting boundaries
By Heiske Nonnekes This week I had a challenge with my daughter. She is 6 years old and was already sabotaging the morning routine for a couple of weeks. We really had to chase her to be ready in time to go to school. Having breakfast, dressing up, brushing hair and teeth, everything was a…
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