F2 Weekly #88 | Win-win situation 🏆 This week we spoke about negotiation 🤝 at our Let’s Grow Again, so I decided to do a brief & general recap of what we’ve learnt. 📝 We can negotiate best, 😀 when we know: … the real value of the product/service we’re negotiating about. 💎 But not only that. We also ought to know the [...]
F2 Weekly #86 | "Are you a catalyst?" 🌀 In chemistry, a catalyst is an agent that is added to a process in order to speed up a reaction.💨 In a broader sense, a catalyst is a thing or a person that causes or facilitates change. 🔄 If we adapt this concept to the entrepreneurial [...]
F2 Weekly #85 | You set the rules ☝ Your game will be played by the rules you set. 🕹️ Usually, your employees will treat you the same way you treat them. 🔄 No matter the generation, we’re all searching for a meaningful work experience. 💗 An experience that brings us value. ✨ We wish to be heard, feel involved, [...]
F2 Weekly #84 | Thanks for listening 👂 Did you ever speak with someone 🗣️ and they nodded their head but you knew that they were not really listening to you? 👂 As if they were there physically, but not mentally. 💭 That’s because listening is a conscious decision. A decision that requires one to focus and [...]
F2 Weekly #83 | Head in the clouds ☁ Imagination 🔮 is extremely valuable, but often not appreciated enough. Einstein even said that, imagination is more important than knowledge. ☝️ I share a similar opinion. 😃 Knowledge can have an inhibitory effect sometimes. 🛑 Usually we limit ourselves to the understandable. 📚 To the already [...]
F2 Weekly #82 | Deliver what you promise 😉 In the past month I took my car 🚗 to the repair shop. Together with staff we agreed on the repairments ⚙️ that needed to be done, as well as the delivery date 📅 and conditions. 📝 Well, the date arrived, but my car didn’t. 😆 Heavily overdue, I finally got my car [...]
F2 Weekly #81 | Prepare today, succeed tomorrow 💪 Preparation is so often overlooked. 🙈 Yet it’s the first step towards effective results. 📈 Look at any athlete. 🏋️ Or a musician. 🎼 Or a parent. 🚼 Although we could prepare ourselves to almost any personal and professional endeavour, we generally don’t do it. ⏸️ And I noticed we’re especially sloppy when [...]
F2 Weekly #80 | Make someone's day 😜 When was the last time you’ve brighten someone’s day? 🤔 This week a community member certainly made mine. 😊 The simple gesture of giving me some adorable stickers 🏷️ has lifted my spirits completely. 📈Afterwards I amusingly started sticking them on my belongings. What a thrill. 😄 So, what’s my point here? [...]
F2 Weekly #79 | How do you reach common ground❓ Every now and then operational and behavioural challenges ❓ arise in our packed Founders House which is considered like a second home to over 160 people. 🏠 How would one usually solve them? 🤔 By implementing rules right? 📝 Rules like we have at home, in school or in society [...]
F2 Weekly #78 | Try, fail, learn & repeat! 💪 It’s time ⌛that we demystify the taboo of start-up failure! 👻 We, at Founders Founders, believe that our entrepreneurial ecosystem still lacks insights 🔇 on failures, a reality far more common than success stories. Therefore, we decided to bring something special to our community full of [...]
