Worm into Water Blog

I love delivering consultancy. And I love working in situations with many uncertainties, many variables, too few limiting or guiding conditions. And that's why I love the phase I'm in with Spatial Insight, the small assetmanagement/data science consultancy in Haarlem. Shaping a consultancy, or more concise, launching a well known Dutch business into the European market, is a big step into the unknown. So... I need to start with a more compelling website. No, wait. We need to have a proposal template, in case our pitch resonates and people ask for more. No no no, lean-up startup prescribes going out there, speaking with your targeted clients first. But we can't! We don't have a strategy yet, we need strategy, we definitely need a strategy! A Strategy, what type of business do we intend to be? We are working with a trusted partner in an international tender, and we have made it to the last round, just two parties left in the race. We're battling with a Big Name Global...

Online sources learn me that it was Andy Warhol in 1968 who predicted that "in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes". I assume Andy had in mind that it was cumulative in one's total life span, allowing someone to gather seconds or minutes here and there that add up to this exact amount. Since 1968 the world population has more than doubled, so you could wonder if we should be grateful with 7,5 minutes already, knowing the impact will be more than double. I like to see glasses to be half full rather than half empty. Despite the truly heartbreaking stories worldwide and in my near surroundings, corona has brought good things as well. The meetings I organise with my team for the Dutch water and environmental technology companies, used to be physical meetings. More and more I realise I hate agendas, minutes, action list and disappointments about the attendance rates. So different now, with monthly video calls of less than an hour, exactly long enough to ch...