Paolo Maria Pavan Retail’s Quiet Roar: What 3.3% in June Really Tells Us Not All Growth Is Equal,And Not All Decline Is A Crisis When the Dutch retail sector reports a 3.3% increase in turnover for June 2025 compared to the same month in 2024, many instinctively raise a gl... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 4, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Scalable Leadership: Hard Truths for Small Business Owners Years ago, I sat across from a baker in Milan whose croissants were the talk of the street, but whose staff turnover was the talk of his accountant. “They leave as soon as they learn the ropes,” he co... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 1, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Industry Is Flatlining, Here’s Why That Should Terrify (or Empower) Your Business Strategy The Calm That Should Make You Nervous It’s easy to miss danger when it doesn’t scream. The latest Dutch industrial price data doesn’t scream, it whispers. A tiny dip of 0.2% in June. Flat. Unremarkabl... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 1, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Minimalism as Environmental Governance For micro and small business owners in the Netherlands, the term "environmental governance" often feels distant, like a policy manual written in someone else’s language. But it’s not. It’s about how y... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jul 31, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan THE SHAKY STAGE OF STABILITY: What July 2025 Is Really Telling Dutch Entrepreneurs When the Cycle Speaks, Listen Carefully July 2025 didn't scream. It sighed. For anyone watching the Business Cycle Tracer from Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the story isn't in the numbers themselves, ... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Jul 31, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Informal Power Still Needs Oversight In my early thirties, I worked with a Manifactur owner in Sondrio (IT) who swore his cousin “just helps with deliveries.” No contract. No payroll. No title. Yet every major decision, from hiring staff... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jul 30, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan The Illusion of Stability: What the Labour Market Isn’t Telling You Let’s begin with a paradox. In the second quarter of 2025, the Dutch labour market appeared… calm. Vacancies fell by 7,000. Unemployed fell by 4,000. Jobs increased by 24,000. The magic number? For ev... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Jul 30, 2025 NL MARKET PULSE
Paolo Maria Pavan Team Size Doesn’t Equal Simplicity In 2018, I met a woman in Utrecht who ran a two-person catering business. She told me, “We’re just small, so we don’t need all that structure.” Two months later, her business shut down after a client ... ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jul 29, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan The 43% Lie: Why Dutch Debt Isn’t as Safe as They Tell You The Number is Not the Message You’ve seen the headline: “Dutch public debt at 43.2% of GDP in Q1 2025,well below the EU limit of 60%.” So the system is healthy? Let’s slow down. In governance, as in l... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Jul 29, 2025 NL MARKET PULSE
Paolo Maria Pavan Your “Good Intentions” Are Killing Your Business When I was 18, I watched a baker scream at a boy for stealing bread. The boy didn’t cry. He just looked at the man and said, “You have shelves. I have hunger.” The baker replied, “And I have rules.” I... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jul 28, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Who Gets What? The Quiet Drift of Wealth in the Dutch Market Economy There are numbers you watch. Then there are numbers that watch you back. The Aiq , or Arbeidsinkomensquote , falls into the second category. This unassuming indicator tracks the share of income that f... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Jul 28, 2025 NL MARKET PULSE
Paolo Maria Pavan Stop Babysitting Your Team The Coat That Was Never Returned When I was 24, I lent my best wool coat to a team member before his pitch. He forgot it on a train. He apologized, and I told him, “It’s not the coat. It’s what it mea... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jul 25, 2025
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