I was really, really tired when I spoke with Fruitloop, but also very happy because my weekend was completely crazy in the best way possible. I had just come back from Austria, and honestly it felt like I was inside one Disney movie mixed with mountains, snow, beer, bridges, and a little bit of panic….
I knew before we started that this would be difficult. Some topics are easy for me. When we speak about customers, meetings, football, discipline, trust, preparation, I can find my way. These are things from my daily life. I know them. I live them. I can explain them with stories. But playful thinking? That was…
Monday morning, the 18th of May, The Mayor called me Mr. Brand, and I said, yes, here I am. I was ready for hedgehog. In our garden, we have five hedgehogs now, and somehow they had become the important people of the house. The Mayor said they had questions for me, because hedgehogs want to…
I already knew before the weekend even started that I would be tired. At work I was covering colleagues who were on holiday, and for two weeks it would continue like that. Four mailboxes to manage, different countries, different offices, different people asking for things at the same moment. Spain maybe open, maybe closed. France…
I suppose playful thinking is not so easy for me. The Mayor said this at the beginning, more or less, and I think he was right. Not because I don’t like playfulness, but because sometimes when someone asks me a funny question, my mind goes to the practical side first. I try to understand the…
Fruitloop:I asked the Mayor if he was ready. He said he was never ready. So, naturally, we went live. That is how Episode 46 of Peeling Potatoes began: not with dignity, not with polish, not with a grand announcement, but with the Mayor checking whether I was warm in my little cubby hole and me…
I knew Thursday was already becoming dramatic before I had even left my bed. The moment I opened my eyes and saw the time — six fifty — my heart nearly stopped. Not because the world was ending, but because I had missed Lunch with the Mayor and Fruitloop again. For two weeks in a…
