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Monthly Archives: January 2012
A healthy country? More improvement needed
Today was in the news: 60% of the men in The Netherlands are too heavy and 44% of the women. One out of seven is so heavy that there’s a serious health concern. Talk to those people and you will hear … Continue reading
A New Era for Sport Club Funding
Looking at the news papers, many sport clubs have financial struggles. Cost are rising, whilst it is more difficult to find traditional sponsorships. Companies that traditionally were generous are tightening their budgets if they are not retiring at all. The … Continue reading
Being naughty for Valentine’s Day?
Today, I was working on an informal contribution on a blog emphasising the significance of Valentine’s Day for IT and Internet professionals (I understand we can talk about geeks here). The concept was how to make 14th February special, for … Continue reading
Lay-in or early out?
Making long days seems to be a characteristic of successful people. We imagine those people leaving late, having no evening at all. However, quite a number of CEOs are creating success by not working late, but exactly the opposite: by getting up … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Health
Tagged Chief executive officer, Goldman Sachs, Jean Martin Folz, Jon Corzine, Paul Polman, Tim Cook, Unilever, Virgin America
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The new economy: business combined with job
More than half of the employed people in the Netherlands has the ambition to start a business complementary to a fulltime or parttime job. Research from Jobtrack.nl shows this fact. Especially for younger people, under 34 year, this ambition is … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Economy, Income
Tagged Business, Education, Employment, Entrepreneur, Job Search, Netherlands, Small Business
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The economy of spirit and community
As it is a Sunday, I went to the Willibrordkerk in Nederhorst den Berg. A very pleasant experience as we were welcomed by organ music by Hugo de Graaf, accomanied by his daughter Nicolien playing the flute. We prayed and … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Economy
Tagged church, Netherlands, Opportunities, Small Business
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More New Year’s Resolution Stats
I find it fascinating to see what people every year want to achieve – and keep that for the first week. Expats in the Netherlands who are visiting DutchNews have filled in a poll – and you see the results … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Income
Tagged Decision making, Dutch, Gym, Health, Holidays, New Year, New year resolution, Weight loss
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Network marketing explained
Many people have an impression of network marketing. Sometimes, they did it themselves, sometimes they know some-one who did it – or they have been introduced to a network marketing company. It is a business formula which is rather difficult … Continue reading
The Economy of Weight Loss
Okay – this is the time of New Year’s Resolutions – and a high score of this is weight loss. Are you working towards it? For your health? Some people do, it should be all. To look better? Definitely. To … Continue reading
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