Driving over to work this week, I listened to Queen's song Under pressure, one of my favourite bands.

It reminded me of the headlines of the interview I had some weeks ago with my brother Marc for Datanews (published in Dutch and in French).

We discussed the parallels between business and sport for which I used the one-liner "for current to flow, one needs to put tension on the system". At least one thing I remembered from electricity and Ohm's law !

In any case, it is meant very positively and for the better. As a sportscoach knows advancing and improving requires training, dixit putting tension on the athlete to become better or in sportsjargon "no pain, no gain", also business leaders have been doing the same for years. Business literature is filled with initiatives companies can take to advance and improve themselves. Studying is de facto the same thing, as every student could testify. The art is to apply the right tension, at the right time and at the right place for an optimal outcome. A lot has to do with will power and ambition.

Best,

Chris