G.Inspired Change
Is Personal
The Plans We Make and
the People We Become
Stories and reflections about leadership, family business, love, loss, aging and reinvention—by Gert Van Erum.
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“In business, change appears on a slide.
In life, it enters the body.”
We describe change with words such as strategy, restructuring, integration and transformation. People experience it through very different words: identity, loyalty, fear, loss, belonging and hope.
Change Is Personal explores the distance between the official story and the lived one—and why nobody, including the leader, can manage change without being changed by it.
Not a memoir.
Not a manual.
A nonlinear collection of stories, contradictions and hard-earned observations about the plans we make—and who we become when life refuses to follow them.
The official story
Strategy, structure, ownership and the plans that look convincing from the front of the room.
What change takes
The invisible balance sheet of identity, loyalty, control, grief and belonging.
Still becoming
Relationships, aging, uncertainty and the difficult privilege of beginning again.
“I will most probably
never be able to write a book.”
had other plans.
Earlier notes
01There is no remote teaching. Just teaching…
A pandemic, a profession under pressure, and the moment technology stopped being the story.
Bonsai and business
On roots, patience, capital—and knowing when it is finally time to start trimming.
And so suddenly it is 2019
Turning fifty and discovering that time changes the meaning of choice.
Gert
Van Erum
Belgian entrepreneur, company owner and Executive Chairman. For more than three decades, Gert has built and led technology businesses through growth, uncertainty and reinvention.
In 2018 he started G.Inspired and wrote that he would “most probably never be able to write a book.” Change, apparently, had other plans.
Change Is Personal brings the business story and the private one together—with honesty, curiosity and enough humour not to take any of it too seriously.
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