Paolo Maria Pavan Evening Decode: 11 August 2025 Opening Snapshot:The Day’s Ledger AEX: 894.13 (+0.31% vs. prior close). A small gain, suggesting Dutch equities ended slightly firmer, a modest positive move. Euronext 100: 1,578.30 (‑0.09%). A slight... Aug 11, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Inclusion Is More Than a Buzzword The Teacup in the Corner In the corner of my office sits a chipped porcelain teacup. It belonged to my mother. No one drinks from it. It’s just there, visible, silent, and part of the room. Years ago,... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 11, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan The 0.7% That Speaks Volumes Numbers are often treated like weather forecasts,glanced at, maybe discussed, then forgotten. But behind each percentage point, there is a story about how we live, choose, adapt, and sometimes contrad... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 11, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Lean Infrastructure as ESG Logic The Shelves in My Grandfather’s Workshop When I was a child, my grandfather’s workshop had only three shelves. Not four, not five. Three. One for tools, one for materials, one for the work in progress... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 8, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Industry’s June Dip: A Story About Margins, Machines, and the Meaning Behind the Numbers We live in an age obsessed with percentages. The Dutch industry in June produced 0.2 percent less than the same month last year, says CBS. A fraction of a percentage,easy to ignore. But every fraction... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 8, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Policies: Not Optional, Just Overdue One rainy Thursday in Amersfoort, I walked into a café run by a brilliant Ethiopian woman named Hana. Her espresso was perfect. Her books, chaotic. When I asked how she handled staff absences, she sai... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 7, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan When the Barometer Rises, but the Compass Stays Uncertain There’s a peculiar kind of optimism in the Dutch business climate this quarter, one that doesn’t quite celebrate, but doesn’t retreat either. Like the moment a sailor notes the wind shifting after wee... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 7, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Gossip, Loyalty & Micro-Company Decay A few years ago, I walked into a 12-person startup in Utrecht for what was supposed to be a financial audit. Instead, I found a funeral. Not a real one, something quieter, more insidious. There were n... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 6, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan When a Whisper Becomes a Warning: What Dutch Industrial Prices Are Telling Us There’s a peculiar sound in the Dutch economy lately, not a crash, not a siren, but something softer: the rustle of industrial prices sliding just a little, again. In June 2025, industrial sales price... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 6, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan The Hidden Footprint of Remote Teams In early 2021, I visited an old friend, a self-proclaimed digital nomad running a remote-first consultancy from his renovated farmhouse in Drenthe. We sipped coffee by a wood stove while he explained ... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 5, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Netherlands, July 2025: Inflation at 2.9%, But What Does Your Wallet Say? Let me begin with a story. In the Dutch summer of 2022, a friend of mine, a precision-driven restaurant owner in Amsterdam, told me something that struck harder than any macroeconomic report: "Paolo, ... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 5, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Founder Burnout = Governance Breakdown In 2017, I met the owner of a small restaurant in Rotterdam, Mediterranean kitchen, fiftyseats, full most nights. His name was Karim. The food was honest, the reviews glowing, the staff loyal. But tha... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 4, 2025 WISE
