Topic

Business

A collection of 7 issues

The Achievers Mindset

When I tell people that I had 5 startups (yes, see my projects), worked for 2, graduated 1.5 years ago as a Industrial Engineer in Computer Science and straight out of school got hired at one of the largest tech firm, then people are always coming up with the

Lessons learned after being at Microsoft for 1 year

Today marks my 1st anniversary of working as a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, and wow what an exciting time it has been! But before I go deeper into my experiences and lessons learned, I first would like to start by thanking some people without whom all of this would

So you want to become a leader? Review my lessons learned from the top leaders and roles in technology

While working at Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect in Data Platform, one of the things we constantly thrive for is improving ourselves and our customers by spreading our energy and passion. A way to improve this is by focusing on our growth path to see which skills we lack

My Key Take-aways from reading Satya Nadella’s Book “Hit Refresh”

I recently started at Microsoft, where I joined at the perfect moment. Microsoft has been transforming under the lead of our new CEO Satya Nadella. Who brought a new fresh breeze of air through the company, with as goal of “Hitting Refresh” and preparing us for the years to come.

Creating a culture of growth and ambition, Part 2 - Motivation

So we learned all about starting our culture, and the base values that a influential leader should have (see FICEL, talked about in Part 1). But once we are this leader, how do we create a growth culture? Well this is all about Motivation. Now how do we create this

Creating a culture of growth and ambition, Part 1 - Leadership

Did you ever lay awake in your bed, wondering what to do with your life? Wondering how you can make an impact in the society of today? Wondering how you can make people follow you? Well, if you are thinking about this, you belong to a group of people often

Feedients Development Environment

Why did we use this development environment? One of the tasks when hiring a new developer is to get this developer completely set-up on his new development environment. Most of the time this task takes a lot of time resulting in a lost workday for the newly hired employee. That