His nick name "Ivo Jobs" He promised me that he would write "what this picture means according to Ivo Jobs" Will share that in the episode of my blog. Expect a lot of wisdom.
March ended above expectation. Already in the beginning of the week it was obvious that we would jump over our budget. Even better news for me and my family is that my kids are doing great at school. Especially my son Steyn is a mystery to us. We need a stick to get him to do something. But it seems that "less is more" is his motto, working out pretty well for him.
Monique did a Fools Day trick on me. As said last episode Tom and Marloes found another job. To make that even worse Monique showed me on her telephone a device that tell's you "pregnant yes/no" This picture, you guessed it already, showed YES. Of course my first reaction (not!!!!) was to congratulate here.
Well don't start sending congrats to here. I would appreciate if you send emails to her husband, because he doesn't know .....
Here is the address "Martijn_your_wife_is_pregnant@hotmail.com" :-)
What else. Bart Mulders got a very nice compliment from Derek about the Ohari bottle. As a suggestion Derek proposed to name it THE MULDERS. Well knowing Bart, sensitive guy, likes attention I thought "a picture tells more then a 1000 words" So there you go young man.
Annual sales meeting was pretty much a success. The table football game anyway :-) Pascal you are fanatic monster :-) I promised a beautiful lady that I would not write about speeddating. So I am not. Marcel was under the impression that she was s...e but she is not. We made a trip in the Sweberbahn.
Everyone will remember the story about the elephant. But at the end I had a bit enough of the word Wupper. Sounded a bit like "I Wupper, you Wupper, What have you Wuppered, When will we Wupper again" Anyway the trip was nice, altough the city gave me a feeling that if they would have told me that a lot people commit suicide, I will immediately believe that. So depressing.
What happened - a lot happened. Marcel was deported to a deserted island and we were invited to take over his job. Ivo Jobs did a great presentation on sharing information. Dennis clearly linking his assignment, getting better results out of the operation, to customers (used the word customer more often then any of the other speakers did that day and by doing so created a lot of good will) Annette was pretty quiet. Since I know here it was the first time that I had to talk to keep the conversation going. Poor thing was ill the first day. So was Kees. Will spare you the details he shared with us about spending the night in the bathroom. Nevertheless he did a good presentation on colour sampling and introduced a new tool for for sales. Great job. With this tool it will be much easier for sales to help customers pick the colours we are good at.Maria brought travel guides trying to win souls for holidays in Greece :-) By the way the Menonitia Amyroanoy was delicious.
Beautiful hotel, especially the central bathrooms were my favorite. All those girls looking at me.
Raoul had a challenge to talk to sales people about high tech raw materials. Not always easy in a group with different levels of knowledge/ experience. Annette focused on new products and triggered the group to come with ideas. Hope that your email box is not big enough for the ideas coming in. I did a gig with the distributors, will remember the silence when I said "oke if what we are looking for is clear to you, we will leave you alone now. Let us know when your plan is ready" Of course there was not enough time to come up with a plan, but the very clear statement that the group wants to work on a plan together with us was heartwarming. Thanks for that. 1st of July is written in stone in my agenda
And to end of 2 days Dusseldorf:
Wise lesson. Look for simple solutions
In the end we are all workaholics.
