Paolo Maria Pavan Netherlands Housing Market, July 2025: Prices Rise 8.6% Year-on-Year Q: Are we back in a housing bubble like before? "Not exactly. Prices are rising again,up 8.6% in July compared to last year, but this isn’t the wild 20% jumps we saw in 2021–2022. Back then it was fre... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan REAL ESTATE Aug 22, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Environmental Ethics in Service SMEs Last week, while waiting in line at a small coffee bar in Amersfoort, I watched a barista rinse the same cup three times before filling it with fresh water. Behind him, boxes of single-use plastic str... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 21, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan July 2025 Unemployment: What the Numbers Don’t Tell You Q: If the news says unemployment is stuck at 3.8%, why should I care? "Because that number hides what’s really going on. Thousands of people lose their jobs and thousands find new ones every month. It... DUTCH ECONOMY ES HR IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 21, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Governance Starts When the System Remembers I once met an entrepreneur who proudly told me, “I keep everything in my head.” Three weeks later, he couldn’t remember whether a client had already paid him or not. The invoice was lost between email... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 20, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Investments Rise in June, But Who Is Really Investing? June 2025 brought us a headline that looks good at first sight: investments in tangible fixed assets were 8.3 percent higher than a year earlier, according to CBS. A figure that makes us breathe a lit... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 20, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
Paolo Maria Pavan Founder’s Chaos and Its Hidden Cost A small pasta maker in Utrecht. The founder, brilliant at sourdough, terrible at order. Staff never know if wages will be late, suppliers wait weeks for payments, and customers sense the tension behin... ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Aug 19, 2025 WISE
Paolo Maria Pavan Dutch Manufacturing in Q2 2025: What the Numbers Don’t Tell You Every quarter, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) releases its figures. We see percentages, decimals, neat columns: “turnover down 0.7 percent, industrial sales prices down 0.6 percent.” A small shift, almo... DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Aug 19, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
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 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
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 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN
