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Nov 30, 2020

The Power Of The Avocado Case

Having fun with experience marketing and product marketing — As we are nearing the end of 2020, I would like to look back to the “Avocado case” one more time. This small project was something I worked on in 2019 and it brought great traction with many of those that saw it. In all honesty, it surprised me big…

Marketing

5 min read

The Power Of The Avocado Case
The Power Of The Avocado Case

Sep 2, 2020

How I Managed Multiple Teams

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…

Leadership

8 min read

How To Lead Multiple Teams (Part 2)
How To Lead Multiple Teams (Part 2)

Sep 2, 2020

How I Managed Multiple Teams

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…

Leadership

6 min read

How to Lead Multiple Teams
How to Lead Multiple Teams

May 25, 2020

Building my COVID-19 Work Station Bookings App

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…

Microsoft

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Building my COVID-19 Work Station Bookings App
Building my COVID-19 Work Station Bookings App

May 12, 2020

If You Have To Play By The Books, Show Empathy

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…

Empathy

4 min read

If You Have To Play By The Books, Show Empathy
If You Have To Play By The Books, Show Empathy

May 12, 2020

Manually Installing Wordpress on a Synology NAS

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…

Synology

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Manually Installing Wordpress on a Synology NAS
Manually Installing Wordpress on a Synology NAS

May 1, 2020

The Books That Helped Me Grow In Life

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. …

Books

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The Books That Helped Me Grow In Life
The Books That Helped Me Grow In Life

Apr 25, 2020

The sad truth about individualism

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…

Lifestyle

6 min read

The Sad Truth About Individualism
The Sad Truth About Individualism

Apr 16, 2020

How I Used #Workingfromhome To Gear Up My Life

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…

Productivity

7 min read

How I Used #Workingfromhome To Gear Up My Life
How I Used #Workingfromhome To Gear Up My Life

Apr 2, 2020

A Quick Guide for Conference Calls in COVID-19 Times

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…

Covid 19

7 min read

A Quick Guide for Conference Calls in COVID-19 Times
A Quick Guide for Conference Calls in COVID-19 Times
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