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We've landed in the era of the absurd idea of winning and losing as good vs. bad. The reality is, more often than not, the loss of victory in the win and the blessing found in the disappointment, as Whistler's Mother taught us. Her icon is engraved in our American DNA; but her lesson seems forgotten. Article by Rik Raats —the fool who practices the pen in an attempt to process reality.

Seldom our bright-minded illusion brings to the next stage of development—It's the accidental wrong in the right direction that makes the great invention land in our lap.

Nothing Can Answer as Acrobatically Flex as Small Businesses Can. Rik Raats April 2020 – The world’s largest corporations are small businesses (that kept on growing). There’s nothing as big as small business. It’s the biggest part of our economy. Often they are misperceived (by small business owners) as the ‘little ones’ next to theContinue reading “(Sm)All Business. To Flex or Not to Flex, that’s the Question.”

PAMPHLET! / WORK OF ART / ARTICLE by Rik Raats. – A friend of mine at a newspaper finally dragged me over the limits of my reservations (…that’s what friends are for?). The initial paper, often distributed next to presentations is becoming a book. –The Art of Likeability. It started indeed as a topic inContinue reading “The Art of Likeability”