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The Nagel family!
piece of a cake? .... (November 2002)
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Arie ..... teaches Technology Management. He is, well I am, also a management consultant. Per 2006 I am involved in:
2006, ISPIM conference in Athens Over the years I travelled a lot for my work. It brought me to many parts of the world, except South-America and Africa. The country that fascinated me most was India. All in all I spent there half a year of my life, in six visits. If you want to read some of my travel stories (in Dutch) of my voyages to India, just send me an e-mail (no spam version): deepsky [at] hetnet.nl |
Why then astronomy, many people ask me. At the age of 13, I had seen a starmap in the newspaper, verified it at night at the sky and became fascinated. I decided to become an astronomer, but that dream never came true. Built that year my first telescope, some ten followed. At 15, the head of the highschool forced me into a technical college, which I really hated. But after four years I was a mechanical engineer! Still very practical when it comes to home-built astronomical equipment and tools. When I finished school I decided to avert myself from anything that was technical. I became interested in statistics and operations research, the beginning of my interest in management science. Some ten years later I did my masters in organisation theory and in 1992 I did my Ph.D. in technology management: Increasing the Product Innovation Potential of a Firm, nominated for the first Igor Ansoff award. Over the years I worked with Hoogovens (steel mills), Ahold (grocery chain), Shell, Philips and at the Universities of Eindhoven and Ljubljana.
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We
live at the red dot ........ We live since 1971 at the red hot spot in
Western Europe (the Netherlands, also called Holland), 140 km south
of Amsterdam. London and Paris are a couple of hundred km's away. The
language we speak is Dutch, a Teutonic language. It should be
distinguished from Deutsch, the German word for German. Dutch is also
not a German dialect as some German seem to believe. Flemish (the
Dutch which one speaks in Northern Belgium), Luxemburgian, German,
Yiddish, Frisian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faeroese, English and
even Afrikaans (Dutch spoken in South-Africa and quite unchanged
since the Dutch came to this country) are also in this same Teutonic
language group. Holland is a small and highly populated
country. In the 17th century it was the mightiest country in the
world, but it seems this is no longer true today. We still earn a
great deal of our money to trade and agriculture (e.g. flowers), but
also now to logistics and industry. And we are very fortunate to have
our natural gas reserves!
