My office in the New York Times

I think I told you that I work at one of the greatest, most happening offices you could imagine, we are the people who don’t hate Mondays. Because we all own ourselves. And most of us own our own companies. Here is how it looks and how it fits into the budding entreprenneurial scene of [...]

Moving from frustration to empowerment

Colleagues of mine use Net-Map to interview unemployed men and better understand their (more or less successful) job hunting strategies. They told me about very mixed experiences with the pre-testing: Some interview partners found the interview helpful and said they learned a lot while others found it made them feel even more power-less and desparate [...]

Can I present an experience instead of a power point?

Net-Map is in great parts an experience-based innovation. The easiest way to get someone excited about it, is to do it and let them see for themselves what an eye-opening experience it can be. That is so much stronger than giving a presentation in which you tell them the different steps one-two-three… or even presenting [...]

Can Net-Map help local police curb neighborhood crime?

This is not a project (yet) but something I thought about while walking through my neighborhood (Capitol Hill in Washington DC), which I love-fear in similar parts, because it is beautiful, walkable, friendly and inviting… if only they’d stop shooting out behind our house every half year and breaking into houses, snatching purses from pregnant [...]

Who will help you get to where you want this year?

Welcome in a new year, a whole beautiful new year that you can use to get closer to your dreams. The first week of the year is a great time to sit down and think strategically about how to get where you want to get. And to figure out, where that is in the first [...]

It’s OK to compete! Just let it all out…

There is a common thread that comes up again and again in the last weeks. I talk with people in HIV prevention, infant feeding, nutrition etc. and they tell me about fierce competition between some organizations for having the “one right solution” that solves the problem once and for all. A lot of energy goes [...]

Leavin’ the ‘hood

It’s not that it’s necessarily nicer or better elsewhere, sometimes it’s not even very different. But there is a certain “eyes-wide-openness” that comes with leaving your ‘hood which makes it so exciting, even if I am just in Cincinnati on business for a day. The fact that I have never been here let’s me enjoy [...]

I LOVE comments

Just in case you read something you dis- or agree with, you have another thought about or even know the answer to: Don’t be shy. Make my day. Write a comment.  

What I want to do with you…

I only recently realized that I talk a lot about my ideas and projects and experiences on this blog… and then I hope you can guess what my services are and you will contact me and we will work together. Funny thing is: A lot of you have actually done that. But now this blog [...]

Ready to elevate?

Do you have your elevator speach ready? Can you tell me why IT (whatever IT is) is so exciting in the time it takes to get from ground level to 4th floor? Even if you won’t ever elevate (what is the verb for taking the elevator?) with the one person who can change your live [...]