Breaking with tradition

As you will read in my card, I decided to start my professional year by sharing with you an interest I took up in 2022. What led me to this was partly the very dry summer and partly a wise and generous friend who for the past years has opened the door to her botanical...

Make your sleep an ally of your well-being

It happened again … the days are shorter, and we are in Wintertime. Why not see this as an opportunity to review our sleeping pattern and make sleep our ally. Since last night I am in my own “November Challenge”. Hence, I have started the below experiment and want to...

Are We Entering the Age of Corporate Social Justice ?

Since my initial studies in Copenhagen the topic of organisational justice has been one of my work topics. The recent months have again made me keen on reading some of the newer research on this topic, such as literature on the perception of organisational justice....

Happy New Year – Schéi Feierdeeg – Joyeuses Fêtes

Some things just stay the same … therefore I share with you my yearly photo and greetings from my end-of-the-year-walk. This walk took place in the Vosges. These mountains are only a couple of hours from Luxembourg, yet I have only rarely been in that area. As...

The emotional climate affects results

When people feel good, they think and work more efficiently, with positive results on creativity, customer relationships, staff retention and revenue. In his book Primal Leadership, Daniel Goleman argues that the number one trait of any good leader is her Emotional...

The paradox of choice

Professor of psychology Barry Schwartz author of the book:  “The paradox of choice”, gave in his TED talk a short introduction to his book. He points out the paradox that we do not experience more freedom, the more choices we have (when the number of choices is...