Category: English
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Right from the source: Beginnings
Did Joseph of Jacob have just a feminine look like his mother, or does the bible imply he could have been a eunuch or even gay? King David had sex with Bathsheba, the wife of one of his best warriors, assuring afterwards Uriah the Hittite got killed in battle. Abraham served his guests meat with…
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JCIKH Bal Burlesque
To honor its 35 years of existence, the Jaycees of Knokke-Heist organized a splendid party in the world-renowned Casino of Knokke Saturday May 21, 2011. The evening started with a gala-style outdoor reception, followed by a Walking Dinner inside the casino where new members as well as founding members exchanged experiences and anecdotes accompanied by…
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A journey into Sephardi Jewry
The story of Sephardi History is one of long lost hope and acute despair. Or at least, it was. Only about 300.000 still speak Ladino, or Spanish (in Hebrew or latin script) as it was spoken around the 1492 expulsion of the Jews in Spain. Their culture is celebrated, but not really lived anymore. It…
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Management by Excel
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.” Spinoza (16th century). In front of me a woman sits down and, as the train is leaving the station, she starts correcting an infinite pile of slides filled with an endless series of numbers,…
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The end of the 648AM era
Today I woke up to the grey and sober noise of an empty 648 KHz AM radio frequency. No BBC News from London, no News Hour, not even the remote timbre of the Lilliburlero. Apart from its faint DRM Broadcasts in cooperation with the Deutsche Welle, this is a sounding end for the BBC World…
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First Class: Bert as Professor (III)
Latin America is doing great during and resists forcefully a Financial Crisis born in the Western World. But is this really the case? For the second time I introduced students to the magical world of Latin America. A confrontation with all aspects of Latin America. I gladly share with you the outline of the 2010…
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Change Management is all about people – a review of “Managing Organizational Change during SAP Implementations” by Luc Galoppin and Siegfried Caems
Change Management is all about people – that is, it´s the point where man and machine cross each other to establish new ways of getting things done. Siegfried Caems and Luc Galoppin take this very seriously. While analyzing the original idea, the design and the future implementation, both authors look at SAP implementation from different…
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First class: Bert as Professor (II)
As a part of the “Doing Business with South America”, I gave three seminars (in Spanish!!!) at my former University (EHSAL). It was the second time I was invited to teach future business leaders on Latin America. It was a very enriching experience and I enjoyed it very much. First hand I experienced that a…
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Jobs and Education
You keep hearing that society’s greatest tasks are educating people and getting them jobs. That’s great. Two things people hate to do: go to school and go to work. –George Carlin.
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The President as Change Manager.
In Change Management, part of the most difficult tasks is to have all stakeholders, groups or even “couplings” within an institution or company to think alike. If managing a company is already a daunting task, imagine how difficult it is to only change certain aspects of day-to-day operations of big enterprises. As you might know,…