Soms wil ik teveel tegelijk en sneuvelen een paar plannen waarvan ik dacht dat ze er nog wel bij konden. Maar soms zeg ik ja en merk dat het in de praktijk moeilijker is dan ik me had voorgesteld en verwatert het. Dat is in organisaties niet anders: heilige voornemens bij de start, maar bij de eerste hobbel valt alles terug in het oude. Het HPO raamwerk (Dr.André de Waal), biedt handvatten om daar voorbij te komen.

2019-06-10 I hosted the STOSO Congress for Psychology Students on May 7, 2019 in Groningen. We studied different types of crises varying from warzone situations to personal crises. In this article I will describe how are habits are a blessing and a curse, how they are tested in crisis situations and how we can use the crisis to become more creative and better equipped to handle the next crisis. Because smaller and bigger once will occur as part of changes we go through. In the words of Winston Churchill: ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste.’

2019-06-02 Even when we are completely stuck, we often have difficulty letting go of certain thought and behavior patterns and exchanging them for more effective patterns. We have identified with those habits so much that letting go feels like betrayal. But habits are no more than a form of algorithms that produce certain outcomes. If they no longer work, you must hack and change them.