July 6, 2022
What did I learn during my sabbatical?
This year I celebrated a big birthday, and in addition, our firm recently had its ten-year anniversary, so it occurred to me that it is time to realize a long-time dream: going for a two-month sailing sabbatical. The idea was to sail the Greek islands, maybe an island per day, and to have friends and […]
September 16, 2021
What did we learn in 10 years of sum people?
Dear friends of sum people, on Independence Day, 4th of July 2011, we founded sum people. After 20 years as a corporate employee and coming from a family of public servants founding a company was a big step. And without you, the friends and clients of sum people, it would not have been such a […]
June 22, 2021
Who do you admire? And why?
One of the exercises we run during the Mountain Wisdom format asks you: who do you admire? and why? and what are the qualities that you admire of this person? The exercise and the exchange between the participants trigger some interesting insights: While some usual suspects like Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Roger Federer come up, fathers, […]
December 29, 2020
How have you been dealing with the loss of control?
(..or have you ever been called a control freak?) Of the many aspects and learnings that one can draw of this particular year I would like to invite you to reflect on your bias towards control and your ability to empower the people around you. For all of us there have been ample opportunities to […]
June 2, 2020