Columns on health, leadership and human behaviour.
English translations of the columns. Personal stories, surprising insights and practical lessons for leaders, professionals and organisations that want to get something moving.
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The preventive effect of GLP-1 drugs — a prediction
A prediction: "the injections" will also have a preventive effect, through the food supply and the social norm. Provided we make them available to everyone who needs them.
It is hard to hunt and gather with broken hips
Children's hips are giving way under their own weight. How a commercialised food chain created an epidemic in 30 years — and why the financial incentives point exactly the wrong way.
The leadership of Diego Simeone
For 15 years he has made solid players rise above themselves. And that is precisely a leader's main task.
Your own fault, fat belly, hips and thighs?
Should we reimburse obesity medication? On the medical, behavioural and societal context of obesity — and why "your own fault" does not hold up.
The ceiling is not going to come down here
Removing blockages does not automatically create movement. On the difference between hygiene factors and motivating factors — and why healthcare badly needs marketing thinking.
Oh dear, what are we to do with that Out-of-Office reply
The OoO as self-protection. It says more about the sender's needs than the recipient's. An affectionate rant.
Working in a video store or in a hospital?
From film advice in the video store to the consulting room: how double ageing, identity shopping and social media are changing the medical profession.
"Big Prevention": the innovative prevention industry
Do we keep investing in living a little bit longer, or do we try to make the time up to the age of 85 more vital and happier?