Without any Formal Leadership Position — Part 2 — Some months ago, I had to lead people from different teams to complete a unified goal. A goal that nobody had budgeted for or had pretty big stakes in. Yet, I committed to making this happen. For the sake of readability, I decided to split this article into two pieces…

Without Any Formal Leadership Position — Part 1 — Several months ago, I found myself in a challenging situation. The company I was working for got acquired in late 2019. When we were about to put the next major release (developed from the ground, yes!) of our software solution out into the market. Unfortunately, our new owners were not…

Because we all want to get back into the office someday! — So… I had a week off. Woohoo! I can recommend it to anybody. I know it is too bad that you can’t fly away to the holiday destination of your dreams but really, take some days off. You deserved it, looking at your performance under COVID working from home during…

Not The Books. Please! — Upfront note: I am not writing this article to curse the airline concerned. I understand these are strange times and strange things happen as such. I hope we can all learn from it and reconsider how we approach the ones we care about, both in personal and business relations. We…

For months now, probably even years, my website (williamvanzweeden.nl) has been running as a WordPress application, hosted on my NAS. In order to get it up and running, I installed the pretty-much-one-click-install-package that is available in Package Center. Works like a charm! For sure, the response rates of my webserver…

Why don’t you give them a try? — Okay, I’ll keep this one short, but I do want to share a quick overview of some of the most valuable books that I have read over the past few months. …

And why you should aim to move beyond it — The topic of this article has been on my list of articles to write for a long time. So, the fact that you are actually seeing this is, to me, quite an achievement. I think the reason it took so long to get it out was because I feel I…

I know what you’re thinking. Not another COVID-19 blog. Yet, if I drew your attention, feel free to carry on as I describe how I used COVID-19, and the whole working from home period to gear up my life in ways I had not expected. First of all, I have…

I guess I should start by congratulating all of you who weren’t used to being on multiple conference calls a day. Congrats! You have all survived a very steep learning curve over the past few weeks or probably months. Good job. I guess something that is bound to a steep…