Hans Guldentops touchs the matter of copying too many people on a mail, why people do that? Just to cover their asses?

By Hans Guldentops

We all work for money. We all get paid differently according to our skillset and experience. But also we get paid in respect to the margin can be made upon our service. That’s how it works, demand and supply.

Organisations try to put in place “packages” that reward a certain level of experience.

By Hans Guldentops,

What do you do if the CEO decides to have a weekly meeting with your team?
Do I tell the CEO what he likes to hear, or what he needs to know? It is tempting to surround yourself with yea-sayers and have obedient direct reports.

By Hans Guldentops,

As my career evolved I noticed that it became more and more difficult to make a clear separation between private and professional life.

By Hans Guldentops,

How many people do you really trust?

“Trust No One” was Mulder`s credo in X-files. “Trust, but verify” is what presumably President Reagan used to say.

By Hans Guldentops,

Indeed knowledge is power. But only if you allow the knowledge to be free.

People who share their knowledge willingly and purposefully are indeed powerful.
Powerful as individuals and in a group they share their knowledge with.

By Hans Guldentops,

If you follow the road until the end……it will lead you nowhere…….

Sometimes you need to dare to step off the path, try to explore alternatives routes to reach your destination. It is not because “we have always done in it this way”, that there may be no alternative

By Hans Guldentops,

Over the last 10 years I have initiated probably a couple of hundred people into the “mysteries” of Telecommunications and related subjects. Teaching has been a great experience, which due to professional circumstances, I can not take up anymore – for the moment – And sometimes there is that one particular person in which you show an interest. One with potential to grow. The “lone star”.

By Hans Guldentops,

A few years ago one of my colleagues wrote “there is no “I” in team” on a whiteboard. But what does that mean?

Many business and sales books use very “combative” and “warfare” language when it comes down to doing business.

You have enemies, battles, strategies, tactics and wars to win. The so-called “feindbild” worries me…

By Hans Guldentops,
The introduction sequence of the Star Trek Series “Enterprise” tells it all, the voyage of adventurer’s bucanneers and pirates to sail the seven seas and “enter” the “prize”. Do something and be rewarded. That is what entrepreneurs do, they start from an idea, put energy and creativity in it and achieve a result.