July 8, 2023

Jaap Hollander

In the Netherlands, a specific set of quality criteria is used to evaluate day care centres. These criteria are audited once a year by independent institutions. To improve quality, it is also important for the day care centres themselves to do audits internally with their own employees. Quite often this does not happen enough. So

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July 8, 2023

Jaap Hollander

Label Apeel is a boutique label printing company. They were unhappy with their assessment tools and had recently lost an important employee. They were looking for a more granular and flexible tool.A MindSonar Professional, using meta program concepts and motivational drives, asked the director about what was important to him in an employee. Between them,

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July 8, 2023

Jaap Hollander

In 2012 the Dutch equestrian sports people won 20% of all the Dutch Olympic medals in London. Three times silver and one bronze medal. Imagine you’re a brilliant rider. To be specific, dressage is your expertise. Day in, day out you are training to be in complete harmony with your horse and to achieve the perfect

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July 5, 2023

Jaap Hollander

Clinton on leadershipWhat is leadership? One of the most concise and yet comprehensive descriptions was given by former US president Bill Clinton, in a Fortune magazine interview in 2014. “Leadership”, Clinton said, “means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it and staying with it until the goal is

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July 3, 2023

Jaap Hollander

Revisiting ClintonThis is part 2 of our series about the Leadership Mindset. In part 1, we described the four essential elements of leadership. We introduced the former US president Bill Clinton who gave a most concise and yet comprehensive description. “Leaders”, Clinton said, “need to … clearly articulate a vision of where they want to go”. 

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