#XrisLogbook 152 - Bridges, Balance & Breakthroughs 🇳🇱🇩🇪

👍🏻 This week’s Global Leadership Program felt like a high-speed masterclass across Europe … five cities, countless conversations, and one clear takeaway: real leadership happens on the ground. From ASML’s chipmaking cathedral to ESA’s space labs, through EOB in The Hague and tech energy in Amsterdam, every stop proved that ideas grow when you show up where things actually happen. We built new bridges, stretched perspectives, sparked opportunities… and logged about 20,000 steps in the process. 🚀

👎🏻 Finding the right balance in supporting entrepreneurs remains one of the trickiest parts of the job. Too hands-on, and you risk suffocating momentum; too hands-off, and you drift from the shared vision you’re supposed to build together. Most weeks, the equilibrium holds… until the day it doesn’t. And then you’re faced with the inevitable: tough conversations and even tougher decisions to keep things moving forward. 🤯

✍🏻 ASML might just be Europe’s most strategic tech asset … the only company on Earth capable of building the lithography machines that power the world’s most advanced chips. With €28bn in revenue and over €4bn poured into R&D last year, it sits at the very heart of a global value chain where its DUV and EUV systems still have no credible rivals. This unrivalled position comes with geopolitical pressure: governments compete to secure access, while Europe sees ASML as a cornerstone of its technological sovereignty. And despite its dominance, the company faces two main challenges: navigating the future of Taiwan… and hiring enough world-class talent to keep expanding a frontier only they currently know how to reach. ⚛️

🙏🏻 Special thanks this week to Marie-Solenne, Cédric , Ori , Razik , Lluis , Abderrahim , Andree-Anne, Sylvie , Mylena , Jean-Jacques , Marnix , Laurie-Anne , Yannick , Sandrine , Greg , Maxime , Chloé , Guillaume , Ana , Beatrice , Corinne , Chrisdèle ,Isabelle , Julien , Constantijn , Freeke , Géraldine , Thomas , Adrianos

✨ Star of the week : Lise recognised as a key tool to channel investment into strategic defense 👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/ezKkHX6T


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