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Happy Dopamine-Day
Thanksgiving is a powerful thing. Not the holiday. Well, that too. I like the holiday. It’s nice. Probably our favourite ‘adopted’ holiday of the year.
Brain Games
Card tricks to kickstart ‘renewal of the mind.’ Who would have thought? Almost every day of this week we started our training sessions with what
Rare Leadership – Part 3 of 3
“Let’s just be friends!” No, it’s not our anniversary, and no, those aren’t words I was told by anyone personally – at least not recently.
Rare Leadership – Part 2 of 3
Picture a runner in the desert, all by herself. Classic desert, just sand, for as far as the eye can see. Slowly the scene moves
Rare Leadership – Part 1 of 3
Rare Leadership. Last week I made a promise that I would be sharing a few more key insights from this remarkable book. My team knows
Get Muddy
Food, games, dirty feet and clean slates. This weekend we took our whole team on a retreat in the mountains. It was cold. We got
City Hall Homework
We just walked out of the local city hall where we tried to get registered as residents at our new address. For the second time
Review: Blinkist, Lucid, Mentorist, Headway, Shortform, StoryShots
The information age. The good, the bad and the ugly. While we can access every bit of data at the tip of our fingers, do
Who gets the credit?
Our living room is filled with moving boxes and there’s no book left on our bookshelf. Everything is in boxes, waiting to be moved to
Mandela called her ‘Lizzie’
The news must have come your way in many shapes and forms and there is lots to read about the passing and the life of
Three Lessons from The Desert Fathers
Not to be confused with Dessert Fathers. (English is my second language and it gets confusing at times.) The Desert Fathers are generally considered… wait, how
Who’s Raising Who?
Am I handing her the cup or is she handing it to me? Am I raising a daughter or is she raising me? There’s days
Measure of Success
It’s not every day you get to talk to the parents of people you’re hiring or interviewing for job openings. We believe so strongly in
Privilege to Dream
Who doesn’t love a good summer road trip? Besides hour-long playlists and quick little games you can play across however many rows of seats your
How are we doing, Europe?
We’re not doing so great in Europe. Well, that’s according to the highly respected Jon Clifton and his buddies over at Gallup. “It’s a great
‘Two wolves’
When you have kids with ages ranging between 15 and 6 it can be nearly impossible to pick a movie that everyone likes. Let’s forget
Transitions
Happy New Year! The unavoidable question would be, ‘what are your dreams, goals, targets for the new year?’ You can read those questions on all
‘The Other Rome’
Just got back from a quick trip to Rome the other day. If you’ve ever been to Rome I’m sure you have enjoyed seeing the
Safety Railing
We live in Northern Italy where the mountains are steep and the roads are wild. If you’ve ever driven these mountain roads and see how
Made For This
Ever heard of the Dutch kickboxer Rico Verhoeven? You should look up his name. What an absolute legend. I’m not necessarily a big fan of
About Reinier
Reinier and his family are global citizens, currently living near the mountains and lakes of Northern Italy.
Reinier is on a mission to help millennial leaders take a leap of faith in pursuit of purpose, adding value to people and planet.