Branding the Bull

April 2013 – Amsterdam is getting ready for the party of a lifetime. And we are ready. Tulips everywhere and the red white and blue of our flag at every corner. And then there is the Orange! Everything from cakes to hair is orange. The trams have the Dutch flag flying (for days now) and the boats have gold crowns. …

Women on the rise

Taurus 2012 It’s Taurus time again – growth and fecundity and theoretically spring here in the north. In Amsterdam you could be forgiven for not noticing it, although as I write this we finally have a nice day. The Bull (Taurus) has been seen as a masculine fertility symbol for a very long time. But as I research for a …

The Earth moved – but is it good for you?

Taurus 2010 It has been an interesting time for me since my last post, having had contact with completely different groups. I gave a lecture for a group interested in art, I attended a breakfast in connection with the Trend Watcher of the Year, I went to a lecture given by Gregg Braden and I gave a workshop for the …

Grow up Venus – why not go for what you really enjoy?

Taurus 2009 Lynne McTaggart of the intention experiment fame, writes in one of her recent newsletters, when discussing suicide research: (see websites below for link). “So it’s come to this. In our modern-day world, happiness is entirely dependent upon expectation and certain entirely arbitrary or conditional standards against which you judge yourself, which are usually what you believe are the …

How old is your company – age matters!

Taurus 2008 How old is your company? Looking at the Taurus phase The more I use my company clock method of organisational development, the more surprised and pleased I am as to how accurate it is. This is a 12-phase model where each phase is 6 years (see Gemini 2006 for more information). Since this is the month of Taurus …