Category Archives: CEO

Leadership – and captain’s culpability

Posted on March 30, 2015 by herwigwdierckx

It is 2015, March 24th , 10.40 a.m. when allegedly co-pilot Andreas Lubitz decides to deliberately crash his Airbus into the French Alps. In the hours and days following this tragedy, public opinion is pointing at hundreds of culprits. His … Continue reading →

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When enough isn’t enough. More Stella, more Zalando, more share, more profit.

Posted on September 2, 2014 by herwigwdierckx

We have all been raised to grow; in good health.  Most of us have also been developed to perform well at school, to find a great job, to excel in a professional career, to make nice money and to have … Continue reading →

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Ram Charan provokes the HR world.

Posted on August 17, 2014 by herwigwdierckx

In their July/Aug issue, Harvard Business Review gives the floor to Ram Charan to have a go at all HR leaders. That was an excellent idea from HBR; Ram is the perfect coach to stimulate ‘rethinking’. A few years ago, … Continue reading →

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3 most amazing vacancies (week31)

Posted on July 27, 2014 by herwigwdierckx

Applications open now!                    

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HR and leadership go H2H

Posted on March 19, 2014 by herwigwdierckx

We have got B2B, B2C and some progressive marketers carefully tried to introduce P2P –as people to people. The latter is a very brave step into the right direction though I am inviting all in business who dare to go … Continue reading →

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Holiday leadership learnings – engagement

Posted on August 18, 2013 by herwigwdierckx

Next in this series on holiday learnings, I like to take you to Beijing, the capital of crowded loneliness. If you ever want the experience to be surrounded by thousands of similar species of mankind but though have the feeling of … Continue reading →

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Holiday leadership learnings – snaky friends

Posted on August 7, 2013 by herwigwdierckx

Further to my earlier blog on holiday learnings and hidden skills, this is about Pedro, the backbone of our garden corporation. Pedro is a small boy; or girl we don’t know. He –as we call him Pedro- is generally calm and … Continue reading →

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Holiday leadership learnings – hidden skills.

Posted on July 31, 2013 by herwigwdierckx

Holidays and daily work routine; it sounds like pure opposites. It sounds like comfort – discomfort, like exterior – interior, like left and right, like capable – incapable. In this first blog in a series on holidays and corporate life, … Continue reading →

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Talent acquisition – Is it true that…?

Posted on June 25, 2013 by herwigwdierckx

Yesterday, I was surfing the internet; “googling” as it’s called. Now, isn’t that evidence of an amazing business success when your brand becomes a generic verb or noun? Even Coca-Cola didn’t achieve that; nor did BMW or Vodafone or Tesco. … Continue reading →

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