Author: Renske

ESG as a trend is here to stay or at least as long as it needs to, to become mainstream. It provokes change and, generally speaking, people regard change as difficult and threatening. Communities, companies included, are like organisms. What we would call the habits, traits or personality of a person is referred to as culture when talking about the characteristics of a community. Each person has good and bad habits as well as blind spots. Some people have habits that are downright unhealthy. It can be very difficult to break such habits, even the ones that are potentially life threatening. Apart from addiction, the reasons are often connected with the perceived, often short-term, gains linked or attributed to such […]

Recently I had the pleasure of participating in the CxO program of Lifeguard. As part of a deep reflection on work, many topics were discussed there, in all openness, that are of concern to the participants, including myself, or even keep them awake at night. One of these topics, brought up by several participants,  is related to the so-called ‘high performance culture’: how to deal with the ever-present pressure, with the ‘pull’ of always having to deliver. The inbox keeps filling up, just like the agenda, resulting in the risk that we just keep on going.  What is that? Why are we always on alert, even if we know that it is better to switch off from time to time, […]