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Teamwork is Not a Management Invention
Have you ever tried to find a definition of teamwork in management literature? I have; and I was overwhelmed, confused, over buzzed and totally blown away with all that expensive talk. However, none of it made sense. Until a few years ago, teacher Saskia, whom I grew up with, told me about Complex Instruction (here […]
How do you learn?
Some time ago I was asked that question on the Linkedin forum and this is what I answered. 1. Learning Tension between ‘what is’ and ‘what should be’. I need a necessity – something that is waiting, burning, urgent, important and that is not yet a reality. 2. Time-to-Task I learn better when the purpose […]
Change Cycle Illusions
The Shortest Distance Between Two Points is NOT a Straight Line The dotted line in the drawing below shows the expectation that people might have with regard to a transition from a current state to a future one. The fact that we perceive this transition in this way is caused by the fact that we […]
Dump your Blackberry and get a life!
Nowadays it’s hard to look past the “buzzy” people who are eagerly typing with both thumbs on their Blackberry device. In a restaurant, at the airport, in the car, at the dinner table or even on a day out with their family. These people are at work: controlling their workload, arranging their schedules and meeting […]
No Passion, No excellence
A few weeks ago a I had the privilege of being invited by some friends (who are passionate about Italian wines) for a short trip to Piedmont. As you can imagine this was not the ordinary cultural sightseeing trip to Italy but an exciting journey into Italian winemaking and gastronomy. No need to mention that […]
