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Cultureel festijn
Mansluujzitting
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Co-creation book
Met a good friend during a birthday party and discovered that we can go-author about failing and female entrepreneurshp
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Nothing Hill
Wonderful conference in a very stimulating environment: former hospital developed by Pål in Kirkenes into a future centre for the region
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Interest meets opportunity
When I learned that a former colleague lost his job, I decided to Let him know I sympathized with him
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Parttime ondernemer
Parttime een nieuwe business opzetten met 2 partners in een nieuwe sector Safety
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Videocall with my friend Kristian
I had a very pleasant catch up with my Norwegian friend Kristian to discuss business opportunities in Norway in 2021
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4,5 kg Toblerone for 60th birthday
Present from colleague who knows my whole family likes chocolate.
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Daily walk in Nature and Recreation area 't Twiske, near Amsterdam
Every day, the two of us make a walk to escape home in Corona time and enjoy nature
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40 years of friendship in sunshine
In August 2020, we travelled to Jotunheimen, Norway. At a mountain peak we realised that we have been there exactly 40 years ago!
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"Ask someone you admire, 'what makes you optimistic?' The answer will lift them and you!"
"Ask someone you admire, 'what makes you optimistic?' The answer will lift them and you!"
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Collaboration for finding medicines against Corona
Worldwide we see rapid progress in finding medicines to prevent, cure or reduce the impact of Corona. The urgency forces collaboration, the key to success!
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Dear to Help
This is one of the spontaneous initiatives of good-willing citizens who want to help those who are in need because of the impact of the Corona crisis.
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We Applaud: Support for Health Workers in Corona Crisis
In many countries people followed the French initiative to pay tribute to the Health Workers in the Corona crisis, by applauding them from the balconies
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Happy winners Brilliant Failure Award
Garage 2020 won the Brilliant Failure Award Health 2020 for their (failed) attempt to make the Youthcare organisation redundant.
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Growing on solid ground
These mushrooms showed me that growing and becoming beautiful is possible everywhere. As long as you create your own solid ground.
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Sign of acceptance
This sign welcomes people of diverse backgrounds. And whenever some turd threw it on the ground, the owner promptly picked it back up.
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Celebrating 54 with my family
Great time together
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Malaria treatment
Malaria is kills more peope than any other disease in Africa. Sadly it struck me.
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Sore arm
A bad day at the clinc today
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#HRevent2017
geweldige voordracht!
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Rene Warmerdam 20 yr @ Speakers Academy
Rene Warmerdam is celebrating his 20th anniversary at the Speakers Academy. He is always looking for the best match with a human touch.
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Really relaxing, Headband Meditation
Great way to get quantified calm
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Enjoying our work!
A gift !
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Great Customer Support @ Philips
Our DECT Telephone set had some problems with batteries. Philips offered complete replacement after almost 2 years
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Katapult Future Fest
In an amazing setting, Katapult Norway brought together people to discuss the Future Society
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welcome angels at a conferencee
they make participants feel different from the moment they enter the door
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Das ist Fussball
After Champion's League match BV Dortmund - AS Monaco was cancelled because of a bomb attack, supporters from Dortmund invited fans from Monaco to their home
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vegetable garden
To have a rest cultivating the vegetable garden
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Ronde tafel belastingdienst
Bijeenkomst rond toekomst
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Spontaneous meeting with Prime Minister
After a conference about Smart Cities, I ran into our Prime Minister, Mark Rutte. He acted very positively and shared a video message for my daughter.
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Happy after Ski Crash
After a ski crash, my friend Arko van Brakel suffered severe injuries at his knee and arm. But this doesn't stop him to look for the bright side!
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the pianoman/woman
op vele ns stations staat een piano, voor iedereen te bespelen. en dat gebeurt ook, vaak met vele toeschouwers.
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Celebrating with friends and familly
Great moments to start the year with friends you love.
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Robbery AH Student Campus
The AH supermarket on the student campus was robbed. Staff and Campus Security took inmediate action. Students thank them with flowers
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Tijn's challenge
Tijn is a 6-year old with a special form of brain cancer. He came to the Serious Request House for more awareness for his disease &raise money for Red Cross
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kerstfeest met collega's na n stressvol
gezellig samenzijn na n jaar vol stress & werkdruk
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Omring Lab eindejaarsbijeenkomst
Inspirerende positiviteit!!
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Popinnpark IISO-certified
November 28, 2016, the Amsterdam-based Popinnpark was certified as O-zone
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Beautiful decay
To receive a bouquet of flowers is lovely, but to see them develop to even more beauty makes me happy
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Happy Student
This is Xinyi, who just heard that her Master thesis was accepted and that she is ready to graduate
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Nice weather with a beer in Amsterdam
It's in the small things
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Enjoy Austria with all senses...
At the famous Gosausee enjoying a local specialty in the rain... All 5 senses fully awake!
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Quick hot-choc break
Short 5min break
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Silly joke
Looking at a silly joke I put up in my new office to make me feel home
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Winning
Watching the game together with friends and win
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eureka Edison moment!
believe is stronger than influence
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lazy breakfast on weekends
^_^
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Snapshot along the way
Flowers in the corners of your attention
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Good food
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Office Garden
Low maintenance, High rewards
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Spicy chicken noodles
Delicious food made by my friend.
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Please take me to Heidelberg!
🙃🙃
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Wow
Wowwww
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wiiiiiiine
partyyyyyy
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Painting on the wall for grandchildren
The name of the painting is bob de bouwer
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Premium Certificate Earned!
Finally the certificate after excellent teamwork
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Brunch
Delicious food
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An interesting picture i want to share
good luck for my thesis
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Ellen's show
Funny
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Serenity
The scenery reminds me of my childhood.
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Met interesting people in library
Met nice guy in library who is going to exchange in China and he said that he was so excited to study there.
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Sunset
Beautiful sunset at the island Mølen (nature reserve) in Norway
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Last class if my studyy
Happy
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Beautiful sunset
breath-taking view, feel grateful for what we have
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Good Friday!!
Finished my paper before the ddl, picked up my boyfriend from the station, had loads of amazing Chinese food, took a looooooong nap
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Cute crochet kit
A nice little project my mom is starting
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Travel picture
Travel picture
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Icecream with little flower
When the staff gave a extra flower when I bought icecream
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See food
When I eat tasty food,I feel satisfied!
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BBQ in the rain
always fun with friends
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Homemae Sweet Soup
Red bean, coix seed, white fungus in milk
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Happy time
with friends
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Summer Deejays Post
Photo in photo : )
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Sunny Park Break
Nice afternoon break with dear Tunde
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delicious
Kind of healthy
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Sunny Day
Hope this nice whether could last
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Creating new solutions for blind student
Sense matis a combination of een app and a 3Dprint which makes grafic pictures touchable on the Ipad Developed by TU Delft Koninklijke Visio
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cute boy!
Cute boy!
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chinese pastry😋
Lekker
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Meow
Meet a cat on the way back home
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DAG
Lezig over enthousiame! Prachtig!
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Free of charge
In a supermarket they have a special shelf with bananas, free of charge for kids
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Network meeting Smart Services Campus
Energetic meeting with members network smart services campus Heerlen
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Son (8) looks for info about his father
His father died 7 years ago while serving in Afganistan. Stan (8) never knew him, so he asked his colleagues for information.
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Emotional moment
A mother listens to the heart of het late sons in the organ recipient. An emotional and positive experience
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Met an inspiring friend
Met Paul Iske out of the blue! At OSL airport
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Blij Paasei
Leuk Paasontbijt
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http://imailing.imagro.nl/maart-2016
happy easter
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Brilliant Failure Award Health 2016
Secretary General Erik Gerritsen hands out Brilliant Failure Award
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Discussion about creativity
Nice conversation in the sun about creativity skills
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Our company chosen as most attractive
Imagro. I'm agro. Im Agro
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15 jaar Roger Vleeshouwers bij Imagro.
750 weken in en out of control
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beautiful payback
I dropped off some knittingwool to a dear friend because I was not going to use it. She knitted this beautiful scarf and gave it to me
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LivsGivere
Ildsjeler deler ut gratis mat og klær til de som har et stort behov. De jobber natt og dag for at de skal klare å komme rundt til mange:)
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POWER point
At "Kunnskapssenteret i Sandvika" they have put up a question on the coffee machine. The question is; What's your powerpoint?
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"I WISH YOU KNEW" WALL
Larvik handball made 400 girls attending on camp write down what they wish Larvik knew, so it could be fixed!
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Outside the box communication
Margrethe Renaa, ICT manager at the Department of Medical Imaging at Drammen Hospital uses different headbands to communicate with the surroundings, AND as a tool to achieve desired mood.
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IVAR HAUGSTAD GJØR MEG BEDRE
Sosialantrolpolog Ivar Haugstad har i 2 år vært fastantropolog i Fearless. Vil takke deg for at du gjør meg bedre!
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Mindfitness - Fearless Streetwear
Fearless Streetwear has produced a sweatband with a pocket for writing reminders and focus / keywords. A simple but powerful tool to exercise your most important muscle, the brain. Check out www.fearl
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Oppmuntringstilsynet avd Grenland
We are happy to announce that Grenland in Norway now has a local department of Optimism Supervisors (Oppmuntringstilsyn)
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The best place to bee 🐝
At Hallingskarvet school in Norway they use humor as a tool, to visualize and remind themselves of what's important
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Crowdfunding of Parking Ticket
After a meeting I received a parking ticket. When I told my story at a next meeting, the group offered to pay the ticket collectively. One man paid half of it!
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Handbikers
Three men who all suffered from a back injury that paralyzed them and took them in a wheelchair didn't give up!
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Coloured life
A cross-over is not merely a safety path for pedestrians, it also can bring colour into life and stimulate our senses.
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Optimistic Dinner in Eindhoven
Enjoying a very positive and optimistic dinner with my good friend Paul Iske
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Start the day with a walk!
We decided to take a walk in stead of taking the shuttle to get to our conference location.
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Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute for Complexity, New Mexico, has both an organisational as well as a physical design aiming to stimulate creativity
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What's the cost of control?
Sometimes it's better to let go if you calculate cost of control. Give new bike instead of police controlling bikes
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OppmuntringsTilsyn
Vest Agder Røde Kors
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Cancelled wedding
A groom in Sacramento called of the wedding a few days before the ceremony. The parents of the bride-to-be decided to donate the US$35.000 party and food to the homeless in the city.
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Skywriting
Meeting with Creativity Guru Cyriel
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Conceptisch
Great office space with view on river Maas with great friend and Chief Imagination Officer Paul Rinkens
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VIP Bus (very inspiring people)
Inspiring session about the past, now and the future.
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Humour at the table
Dinner with Korean business friends. Lot of joking and laughs.
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Woodbrothers
Two brothers wood-working together in there awesome makespace and having a badass time making cool productschappen which rocks (y)our world!
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Living room as office space
Meeting in a living room with nice view on green and water
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"Brilliant Failures" on toilet door
Teachers sharing their worst ideas on the toilet door in a school in Norway.
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Happy stess at Transavia
Wonderful and shining stewardess of Dutch airline Transavia
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Optimistic dinner
During a nice dinner with my friend Lucas we developed great new plans
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Hiking in Italy
Hiking with my girlfriend in the Dolomites during our holiday
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Fishing in Norway
Together with my 10-year old son, fishing in a beautiful Norwegian fjord
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Waardecreatie ipv geld verdienen, kwestie van omdenken!?
Mooie inspiratie van Paul voor collega bankiers @Dialogues House #Medezeggenschapsraad #ABNAMRO dat waardecreatie steeds vaker niet (alleen) met geld verdienen
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Tom
Nice meeting again with my Optinistic friend Tom
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Paul's dialogues
thank you Paul for your dialogues!
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Besseggen, Norway
Beautiful scenery in the Norwegian Mountains Jotunheimen. Famous Besseggen walk.
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Green Wall
In the Innovation Centre of ABN AMRO, a couple of walls are covered by real moss.
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Indestructable picknick set
In Ottersum (NL), local youth was asked to design and create a picknick set that could withstand vandalism.
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Innovation Café @ Ahold
In the Head Office of Ahold (the retailer company), you will find an ‘Innovation Café’, which has an open and insprirational setting. Here people work in creative sessions on innovation.
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Visit to Dialogues House
Two friends posing in front of the pressure cooker of the Dialogues House (Amsterdam), a place that aims to stimulate valuable encounters.
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Nelson Mandela Square (Johannesburg)
A statue of Nelson Mandela at the square in Johannesburg with the same name. Many happy people who are enjoying the place.
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Positive Road Sign
At the top of the Floy-banen (Bergen, Norway) a couple of sign has been put on with positive messages, such as this one (‘Don’t stay inside, all hope is outside).
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Meeting with Jeroen van der Boom
During a radio recording, my children had a private meeting with singer Jeroen van der Boom, who was very friendly and took the time to talk with them and posed for a picture
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O4NT: Education for a New Era
Creative class in a ‘Steve Jobs’ school, offering a learning environment with the most modern educational methods. Children, parents and teachers enjoy this new concept.
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A typical Dutch setting
I made a boat trip with my dear business contact Kiran. He is from India and I wanted to expose him to the beauty of the Dutch polder.
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The Sun is shining for everyone
The team of the Insitute for Serious Optimism has a board meeting in the sun at the Gardermoen hotel Bed & Breakfast: nearby the airport, but in a natural environment.
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Brilliant Failures at Boskalis
The Dredging and Maritine Expert Company Boskalis has developed a Brilliant Failures programme to stimulate experimentation and learning from failures
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Imagro: A social Enterprise
As part of the business model, the Ottersum (NL)-based) communication & strategy company Imagro, initiated and supports a working place for people with a distance to the labour market