September 2011
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A Mental Revolution
I spent the last few days in Batumi (Georgia) for an international conference on the topic “Public Service of the Future”. And I have to say it was a great experience! The delegations represented around 20 countries, going from neighbors such as Turkey and Azerbeidjan to far away countries such as Iceland and Sweden, ex-soviet countries such as Ukrain to North African countries such as...
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Welcome to the 21st century!
Today started with a Belgian employee of the German Lufthansa refusing my trolley as hand luggage for one of the most absurd reasons I ever heard. “It is more than 8 kg”. As if a kg in the luggage compartment weighs less than in the cabin… or as if I would be refused on the plain if I weighted some kg more… But the rules remained the rules and the employee stuck to the...