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‘Soft?’ I repeat in a faltering voice, my heart skips a beat and I instinctively hide behind my hoodie so you can’t see me for a moment. It’s a drizzly Tuesday, the kind of day when you’d rather meet in a warm café. That’s not possible right now, so during a walk through the dunes […]

As a leader you experience those days where you as a leader, are working very hard, with your employees, your team within business and it seems that it doesn’t make a difference at all. As a result of that you can get dispirited and give up. It takes a lot of courage to stay on […]

The other day, I heard someone say: “The right person in the right place”… We are all familiar with this statement and we know what it means. But still it made me think, because you can look at it from two sides: – The right person; – The right place; In our Being on Mission […]

In this special period, we like to share more than ever before. Therefor a very personal blog this time. Would you like to share your personal thoughts on leadership and change? Feel free to contact us, we might publish your story. Something invisible and bigger than all of us together is taking over the world. […]

Last week a participant entered a course I also attended. He immediately impressed me with his apparent serenity. I learned his name was Ravi (without the oli he said) ;). A very funny guy from London with roots in India, father of three grown-up kids and with a sort of buddhist inner peace. In the […]

Leadership is a choice, we can all choose to take leadership! This is an important base of the Being on Mission method. It does not matter if you are a manager or like to become one, an entrepreneur or an (independent) professional. You are welcome to discover how you can lead your life and take […]

Recently I was enjoying a drink on a terrace and I heard two parents talking to each other about their children. One told the other that her daughter had brought a friend home to play together. The other girl said that she wanted to play that someone would die. The mother was very upset: “It […]

Aristoteles and Shakespeare are well known storytellers from ancient times. Up to date their stories are still being told in plays. And even nowadays they attract much audience. Why? Because we as human beings simply like to listen to stories. Stories that matter of course. Not he stories your mother-in-law tells you about the nephew […]

Very often people ask us what the difference is between a ‘Being on Mission program’ and other leadership programs. We explain then that we don’t work so much on skills, but more on awareness. For some people this is a vague concept. That’s why we want to give some more thoughts into the concept of […]

We will keep talking and writing about leadership. Research, biographies of world leaders and new theories fall over each other and claim to be “the best”. Personally I like to do some “cherry picking” in this never ending landscape. I select what inspires me and create a collection of insights that feed my personal wisdom […]