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Fascination with Winsemius Sr.
ROLE MODEL AUDREY HEPBURN "If I'm the smartest person in the room, I'm in the wrong room," is her quote in the March Harper's Bazaar. Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (19850161), top woman of AON Holdings: "Dare to dream big: reach your hands and eyes to the stars, keep your feet on the ground. Then there's a wonderful journey ahead of you and a whole world to be won. As my role model Audrey Hepburn once said, 'Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist'."
Frans Stoelinga (19630121) is nearly 80 years old and recently received his doctorate in history. He bit into the role that economist Albert Winsemius, father of ex-minister and Mckinsey top executive Pieter Winsemius, played in the development of the city-state of Singapore. Dr. Frans published the book "Albert Winsemius, the man who made the Netherlands and Singapore rich.
Lack of 'bonding' Dave Heilbron (19970092) was quoted as head of recruitment at Aegon in Het Financieele Dagblad: “There is an extreme labor crisis and an unprecedented number of vacancies. People are not staying with an employer for very long.” The corona crisis, he says, is to blame for this. “Young people have not been able to build up a bond with the company, and are more likely to leave.”
HUBRECHT THE FIRST! Also turning 80 was Hubrecht Duijker (19610020). He calls himself a Vinpressionist, a term he was the first to use. The author is rightly an obvious choice. He was the first to call himself a wine writer and to start practicing that profession full time in 1974. He managed to produce 120 wine publications, mostly books, but also calendars, a world record. 25 Books were translated into German, English, French, Danish, Spanish and Swedish. And he was the first to create an online platform on which Dutch amateur painters can exhibit their most beautiful works for free, which some hundred artists are now doing.
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