Latest blog articles

  • How to manage your leadership auto-pilot?

     “Perhaps you can change that font and color on that slide there”, I hear myself telling one of my team members.

    There I went again, trying to add some marginal value and get an internal fix of being productive. Looking at the face of my colleague, I just realized that my ‘added value’ wasn’t worth...

    Gaston Schmitz
  • Invest like a Pro

    How private portfolios can benefit from what professional investment managers do

    Christian Wiehenkamp
  • The right people for a successful change-adventure

    For a successful change-adventure you need the right people. You’ll have to build a real movement with them! To that end, a group or team of employees will have to take the lead in the change. We like to refer to this as the necessary coalition of change: a group of people with a shared belief that...

    Woody van Olffen
  • Measuring emotions from your smartphone?

    Nearly everyone has a smartphone nowadays, and most people also have several other devices (tablets, laptops, etc.) to connect to the internet. Did you know that with just a simple smartphone or laptops companies and universities can already predict what kind of emotions you are experiencing?

    Bart Rienties
  • Measuring the Performance of a Supply Chain

    A supply chain can be defined as a “system whose constituent parts include material suppliers, production facilities, distribution services and customers linked together via the feed forward flow of materials and the feedback flow of information” (Stevens, 1989).

    BENG Header
  • 50/50 Story: Combining academia and policy work

    The story itself: So, how does it feel to work in academia and do policy work at the same time? First, let us talk more about these 2 areas to understand how these work in practice

    Irina Burlacu
  • Lean Startup MVP: How To Make Meaningful Products

    Jon Pittman says this about MVP in his Medium post: “engineering and business culture often focus (sic) on minimum features and forgets the viability part.” While I don’t think this tendency is limited to engineering and business culture, I agree that too many product development teams misuse MVP...

    Brian Pagán