• It’s so perfect it’s gotta be fake.

    Just a quote from Matrix Resurrections 2021, to remind us to question overly polished narratives and strive for authenticity in a world filled with fakes and illusions. Embracing imperfection and acknowledging the nuances of reality… Read more

  • Questioning the obvious

    It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Mark Twain Listening to this How to: Academy podcast raised loads of questions in me regarding online data safety and privacy, and reminded… Read more

  • Compensation and incentives

    “The purpose of a compensation system should not be to get the right behaviours from the wrong people, but to get the right people on the bus in the first place, and to keep them… Read more

  • Limitations

    What we see is what our vision allows us to see. #buildingahumanbusiness Read more

  • Daniel Markovits on the meritocracy myth

    In his new book ‘The Meritocracy Trap’, Markovits delivers a fierce indictment of a system which, he says, prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. He argues that this is undermining democracy. Read more

  • Managers and leaders

    Managers promote stability while leaders press for change. Only organisations that embrace both sides of that contradiction can thrive in turbulent times. #buildingahumanbusiness Read more

  • “I’ve done all I can …”

    A self-limiting phrase that hinders progress and limits thinking. Instead, asking the question ‘what could I have done differently’, ‘was there something I didn’t try and I could have’ – that’s what brings progress. “The… Read more

  • Creativity & ego – a lesson from Jeong Kwan

    Volume 3 of the Netflix documentary series Chef’s table kicks off with South Korean buddhist nun Jeong Kwan who approaches cooking as a spiritual practice. Her meals have left some of the world’s most famous… Read more

  • Re-examining biases

    The ability to examine biases is the key to opening up new solution spaces. All too often, we may jump to old so-called truths and conclusions that provide a false sense of comfort. Openness and… Read more

  • Innovation and change

    I’ve admired R. Buckminster Fuller’s work for quite some time. He was an American architect who developed many ideas, designs and inventions. Most particularly, I know him as the patent owner of the structure of a… Read more

Hi.

I’m Viktor, a London (UK)-based entrepreneur, mentor, endless optimiser, doer and thinker,  believer in people and their potential.

On a mission to figure out what works and what doesn’t when it comes to building a successful human business … and life.

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