Paolo Maria Pavan Why Your First Hire Defines Culture Let’s cut the poetry: your first hire isn’t just a person, it’s a precedent. And if you get it wrong, you’ve already set your company’s immune system to tolerate dysfunction. Culture Is Not a Mood. It... ESG Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jul 1, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan You’re Not “Too Small” to Have an Impact Let me say it plainly: the idea that you, or your company, are too small to matter is not just wrong. It is a lie. A dangerous, comfortable, culturally sanctioned lie. And like all lies that survive t... ESG Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jul 1, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Why the Most Educated People Drink More, Smoke More, and Think They’re Healthier Than You A Number Is Not a Trend, Until You Understand the Tension Behind It In 2024, 45% of Dutch adults declared they either didn’t drink alcohol or limited themselves to one glass per day. At first glance, ... Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jun 17, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan How Small Businesses Can Use AI Without Losing Their Soul (or Their Sanity) Let’s begin with a truth we must face without flinching: Artificial Intelligence is not knocking on the door, it’s already inside the house. And for many small businesses, it doesn’t feel like a helpf... DIGITAL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jun 11, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Why the Decline in Spousal Support in the Netherlands Isn’t Progress, It’s Systemic Amnesia Once Upon a Divorce... In 2011, a recently divorced woman stood at a threshold vulnerable, disoriented, yet cautiously hopeful. Statistically, she had an 18% chance of receiving spousal support. If sh... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jun 10, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Why the ECB’s Rate Cut Won’t Save You and How to Read It Before It’s Too Late They cut the rate. A quarter of a point. No fireworks. No drama. Just the kind of movement that central banks make when they’ve run out of clearer options. Lagarde, as always, delivered it without tre... Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jun 9, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Who Guards the Guards? What Happens When the Host of the NATO Summit Has No Government The Theatre of Power Is Moving. The Hague, city of law and treaties, is preparing to host one of the most consequential NATO summits in modern memory. But this time, there is no applause. No commemora... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan WISE Jun 3, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan Your Financing Is Approved—Until It Isn’t Let me be clear: the most dangerous phrase in today’s financial vocabulary is “We’ve decided not to proceed due to political uncertainty.” I’ve heard it twice in the last quarter—once during a refinan... DUTCH ECONOMY Paolo Maria Pavan WISE May 22, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan A Bully Always Wants More The Beast at the Border: Why Digital Sovereignty Begins with Saying No You can put a necktie on a wolf. It’s still a predator. And the scent of weakness only sharpens its hunger. In boardrooms and pol... Paolo Maria Pavan WISE May 10, 2025
Paolo Maria Pavan The Shortcut That May Cost Us the Map “It’s not the price. It’s the path.” On May 8th, with a handshake framed by flags and flashbulbs, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Donald Trump inked a deal that was branded as “trade relief.” Lower ta... Paolo Maria Pavan WISE May 8, 2025
Linda Pavan Beyond Transactions: Building Business Relationships That Last In business, relationships aren’t just transactions—they’re the threads weaving stability, growth, and success into your company’s fabric. Suppliers and clients aren’t just part of the ecosystem; they... Linda Pavan WISE Nov 23, 2024
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