
Adapting OD to culture
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Are your OD methods culturally adaptable? How does culture influence your change management, the processes, interaction, structure and the instruments you use? How can you be more effective in different contexts?
We had great conversations…

Relaunch Cooperative
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Exciting news for the new year!Saskia Maarse, Brigitte Opel and I are relaunching Cooperative Cultural Insights, combining our extensive expertise from diverse cultural backgrounds, various sectors, and multiple countries. With a vast network…

Dr. Eze on Africa day
Blogs and articles, Links, News, Photo'sDr. Michael Eze and top civil servant Christiaan Rebergen in dialogue on the Africa day about the Africa strategy of Foreign Affairs. Ubuntu teaches us that Europe and Africa need each other.

The role of the Jester
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This image, is it allowed? Would you call it cultural appropriation? And is this still the case if the ‘proprietors’ of the figure are actually dressing you and if it’s all done in a cheerful, jolly atmosphere? The latter is exactly the…

More knowledgeable, less intelligent
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“We have become more knowledgeable but less intelligent.” These words were spoken in Leiden by Prof. Felwine Sarr, a Senegalese academic, poet and musician. Or possibly we should reverse the order and say: ‘a musician, poet and academic’.…

You ARE the traffic jam
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“You're not IN the traffic jam, you ARE the traffic jam.”
A beautiful statement by Shirine Moerkerken, giving meaning to social constructivism, on which she bases her interventions in organizations.
You may hate being in a traffic jam,…

NABC Book presentation
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It was great to do the book presentation and panel discussion, talking about intercultural management in Africa. It was during the back-to-business meeting, after the summer break, of the Netherlands-African Business Council (NABC), organized…

Speaker NABC
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Always nice to see such a speaker announcement. Soon I'll present my book at the back-to-business event of the NABC (Netherlands-African Business Council). The book is about doing business in Africa. It concerns a very interesting case study…

Book well received Gaborone
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During the OLDN Conference on OD and Change in Gaborone, Botswana, I presented the book on management in Angola, that I wrote together with Vasco Freitas Silva. The book was very well received and it resulted in a lively discussion with all…

OLDN Conference Botswana
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In Gaborone, Botswana, I was happy to attend the International OD and Change Conference of OLDN. The Organization Leadership & Development Network is an OD initiative from Zimbabwe with members from all over the globe, under the excellent…