Getting Things Done
Are you looking for permission? Look again Lots of people I know look around frantically for someone to give them permission. Permission for almost anything in their lives. Such an attitude is a great way of avoiding the responsibility of doing anything at all with your life. But of course
management
A continuous challenge Delegation is a continuous challenge for quite a few managers. Especially when they need to delegate critical tasks under their direct responsibility, the threshold to delegation can become very high. I have known and still know a lot of managers that would rather do the work themselves
opinion
I just discovered this article by Garrett Gitchell on his Horizontal Change blog. It mentions an article I've written a while back and provides a set of highly relevant comments in reaction. The site provides good, concise and wonderfully opinionated (I should recognize opinionated when I see it,
gtd
Sven Fechner has provided a short and as usual concise description of a key to do if you are a 1Password user. If you are not a 1Password user, you should become one ASAP. It is the best cross-platform program out there to securely manage your passwords. Thanks Sven! I&
internal audit
A couple of days ago, the president of the Belgian federal audit committee announced that he was resigning because his committee did not receive the required support from the government to allow it to achieve its objectives. He was quickly supported by at least one high profile president of a
Stream of Consciousness
A reflection Just a little something to make you reflect a bit in these days after New Year, when all intentions are fresh and new and never to be broken. What if the real purpose of your life is not to fulfill your destiny but rather to discover it first,
Stream of Consciousness
First, and before I forget, the very best for all of you. Thank you for reading this blog in 2013 and I hope that I can keep you interested. I will certainly try. For 2014, my blogging intentions are simple but ambitious: * One article each week on risk management or
burden reduction
Or, why most laws and regulations may be conceptually relevant but turn out to be terrible in application. Great from afar, but far from great I challenge you to pick up any regulation or any law. If you were to examine them closely, you would find out that their quality
communication
Making it simpler will not be solving the problem Perhaps we have been approaching this communication problem all wrong. We keep saying that if we want to present the reality of development aid, we need to make it more accessible to people. And when we are saying "more accessible&
link list
Remember my intention to publish a weekly link list? Well, that failed! Still, my nvAlt queue has a number of articles in it that I really want to share with all of you. Here we go! Share a Digital Contact Card Right After You Exchange Business Cards The whole point
risk management
I wrote this article in 2012 for a foreign speaking engagement. It gives a short overview of risk management evolution in the Belgian federal government. When speaking about risk management, many people assume that the main drive started in 2004, after the publication of the long awaited COSO ERM. Quite
Stream of Consciousness
I continue to be surprised by the lack of care given to regular, standard communication and interaction between people, especially in this day and age. Rather than being right, communication now appears all about who is the fastest, the first on the ball rather than the best or the most