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Today I bring you conversation with Jurgen Appelo who calls himself a creative networker. He is\u00a0a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader and freethinker. As per Inc.com he comes among\u00a0Top 50 Leadership Expert and a Top 100 Great Leadership Speaker. I can’t miss to mention that he\u00a0is the author of the book Management 3.0<\/a>, which describes the role of the manager in Agile organizations. \u00a0Isn’t it amazing? One guy with so many achievements in a very short while.<\/p>\n

When I got an opportunity to interview Jurgen, I learnt about who inspires him and how he thought of bringing Management 3.0 to the world and here is what Jurgen has to share;<\/p>\n

Q1 Who is Jurgen Appelo in his personal life?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jurgen: In my private life, I am still Jurgen Appelo. \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0I love reading. I like running. I live in Brussels with my partner Raoul. And we both have ridiculously busy jobs, which means that we often both work while we relax at home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q2. What was your biggest achievement as a kid?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jurgen: I designed a wedding card when I was 4 years old, which was then used by my Kindergarten teacher when she married. I designed the backgrounds of a school play. And I wrote several scripts for comical sketches. And when I had a Commodore 64 computer, I was quite proud when I hacked it to enable multi-tasking.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q3. Who is your inspiration?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jurgen: There are thousands of inspiring people. I don’t focus on one person. Some (random) names that come to mind are Richard Dawkins, Richard Branson, and Jennifer Saunders. It’s more the things that people do that I find inspiring than the people themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q4. What made you think of Management 3.0 and presenting it to the world?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jurgen: I started blogging on <\/span>NOOP.NL<\/span><\/a> (my personal blog) when I was still a manager at a medium-sized company in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. And I wrote about my experiences as a manager when I was introducing agile practices in the company. It appeared that people liked those articles, so that gave me the idea to write a book about it. At that time, the term “web 3.0” started being used, so I called it “management 3.0”. Afterward, other people started using terms such as “marketing 3.0”, “loyalty 3.0”, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q5. Mention three simple things that can make a workplace happier.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jurgen: <\/span><\/p>\n