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  • Petervan’s Delicacies: week 5 Jan 2015

    There is so much noise out there. Getting back to some basics: a self-curated weekly list of max 5 articles that i found interesting and worth re-reading. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About the Evolutionary Edge of your organisation. By NOBL: https://medium.com/nobl-collective/organizing-for-the-unpredictable-837fd4337113 About Strategies becoming trajectories. By JOHN HAGEL: http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2015/01/the-big-shift-in-strategy-part-2.html About humanity in business and society. By LEON WIESELTIER: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/books/review/among-the-disrupted.html?_r=3 About… Read more

  • Scaling “Only-Ness”

    Artwork Petervan 2015 – Thinking Man – Pencil and watercolour Since a couple of months, I am chewing on a couple of themes that feel interrelated. Themes like scale, uniqueness, and beauty, eternal, ephemeral, one-ness, and only-ness. I started wondering: What if scale is not the answer? What if I would start focusing on my… Read more

  • Rebel of the Month – Jan 2015 – Khurshed Dehnugara

    As many of you know, my “night-job” is Corporate Rebels United, a movement to unite Corporate Rebels worldwide to ensure that true change happens virally from deep within the fabric of our organisations. At the end of 2014, we had something to celebrate: without any marketing we stealthily became a flat army of 1,000+ corporate rebels!… Read more

  • Qualities for 2015

    Wish that everything you do in 2015 is inspired by the following qualities: Have a great 2015! Read more

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Tactics

    Picture from Tomorrowland Music Festival, Boom, Belgium, by imgkid.com During the last summer, there was a sort of house-festival organized in the small village where I live. A sort of Tomorrowland, but then very small scale and for the local youth only. The organization looked professional, I had been listening to the soundchecks during the… Read more

  • Back to Academy

    Way back in the seventies, i studied architecture at Sint-Lucas School of Architecture in Brussels and Ghent. Apparently – after 150 years of existence – the school is since 2012/2013 part of the LUCA School of Arts in association with the Catholic University of Leuven as the “Faculty of Architecture” At the time the Ghent campus was located… Read more