The week 35-2020 highlights ...

Picture provided by https://bqotd.com/, quote from C.S. Lewis,    https://www.cslewis.com/us/about-cs-lewis/ 

An interesting week is gone and an even more interesting one is coming up. The new organization is supposed to be starting on 01-Sep-20, the first day I will meet my new supervisor.

A lot of people did ask me, if I would have a problem to start in a new environment changing from the IT to the Finance department? I do not see an issue as I am a very self-organized guy working independently under self-control. Somewhat exaggerated one could say, we just meet for goal setting, mid- and end-year review meetings and some status updates in between. I can easily adapt to any supervisor, it is more difficult for the supervisors to get along with me 😉, sometimes. Being open, honest and authentic can be surprising from time to time ...

Yesterday we did meet a friend, who did change from a large enterprise company to a mid-size family owned business. He did tell about a lot of interesting changes that he realized in the last 4 month. Similar stories that I hear from another friend who is working as a freelancer for a family owned business in the bio-technology industry. In order to keep the company internals and details protected, I did search for two articles that pretty well cover the pros and cons of family owned businesses. Some are really well known and exceedingly successful. Decide for yourself ...

• Why do Family Businesses fail?  https://smallbusiness.ng/why-do-family-businesses-fail/ 
• The World’s Top 750 Family Businesses Ranking  https://www.famcap.com/the-worlds-750-biggest-family-businesses/ 

Besides the Fairphone presentation this week there was another one from Elon Musk's Neuralink, https://www.neuralink.com/ 

• Neuralink demonstrates its next-generation brain-machine interface    https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/28/neuralink-demonstrates-its-next-generation-brain-machine-interface/ 

"I could have been born into any family. I was fortunate that I was born to an artist as extraordinary as Picasso, and Picasso turned out to be the family business." -- Claude Picasso, French - Photographer Born: May 15, 1947,    https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2019/01/22/conversation-claude-picasso-john-richardson/