Paolo Maria Pavan You Are Part of a Watershed, Not a Bubble I once visited a region in the Netherlands where the land had a history of flooding. The fields carried silent scars of water that had overflown its boundaries, seeping into homes, gardens, and roads.... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 18, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan When “No” Disappears in Business The Room Without Walls Years ago, I visited a small family business in Friesland. Everyone was smiling. Every idea was “brilliant,” every request “no problem.” It felt warm,until you noticed the invoi... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 15, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Job Market Q2 2025: Fewer Moves, More Caution Three hundred and five thousand. (305.000) That’s the number of employees who changed employers in the second quarter of 2025. It sounds big,until you notice that, three years earlier, the same figure... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 15, 2025 NL MARKET PULSE
Paolo Maria Pavan Speak to Your Team Like Clients A Tale of Two Conversations Last week, I overheard two calls in the same office. The first: a client on the line. The manager’s tone was warm, patient, precise, every word weighed like gold. The secon... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 14, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan June’s Dutch Export Numbers: A Modest Rise Amid Germany’s Industrial Slowdown Exports Up, Germany Down: Reading Between the Lines Statistics Netherlands tells us that in June, the volume of Dutch goods exports, adjusted for working days, was up 1.8% compared to June 2024. Machi... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 14, 2025 NL MARKET PULSE
Paolo Maria Pavan Slowness as Ecological Leadership When my grandfather ran his company, he was known for two things: never missing a handshake and never rushing a decision. He read contracts slowly, not because he doubted himself, but because he respe... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 13, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan July’s Dutch Business Numbers: The Calm, the Churn, and the Illusion of Growth In July 2025, 299 companies were declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. That’s 109 fewer than the same month in 2024 , a 27% drop, and 4% fewer than in June. At first glance, this is the kind of number... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 13, 2025 NL MARKET PULSE
Paolo Maria Pavan The Danger of Being Your Business’s Single Point of Failure The Parachute That Never Opens Years ago, I met a small business owner who proudly told me, “Nothing moves without me.” He meant it as proof of his dedication. Two months later, he was hospitalised af... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 12, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Inflation Cools to 2.9% in July 2025 When I look at the July 2025 inflation figure, 2.9% year-on-year, down from 3.1% in June,I don’t just see a number. I see a pulse. A soft beat in the economic bloodstream telling us the patient,our ma... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 12, 2025 NL MARKET PULSE
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 NL MARKET PULSE
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
