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No Longer Practitioners Anonymous
I had no clue what would happen when I sent out the invitation for the first Organizational Change Practitioners meeting. Glad I did it!
Unraveling Social Interaction (part 7)
Taking care of the relationship is too simple to be true, because the tools at your disposal are as straightforward as a Swiss Armyknife.
Unraveling Social Interaction (part 6)
How tempting it is to abuse emotions in the ebb and flow of human interaction.
Unraveling Social Interaction (part 5)
Putting digital communication trough the test of the insights we gathered in the previous four articles. It turns out that unraveling human interaction is more important for digital communications.
Unraveling Social Interaction (Part 4)
Who could have known that in order to find out the influence of national culture on human interaction one needs to investigate the cockpit transcripts of plane crashes?
Unraveling Social Interaction (Part 3)
The resonance of the culture we grew up in causes the roles and the rules of a situation to be altered like a magnetic field. This is why we need formality.
Unraveling Social Interaction (Part 2)
What exactly is being exchanged in order to maintain or regain the balance in a relationship? And what is it exactly that needs to be balanced?
Unraveling Social Interaction (Part 1)
In a first attempt to unravel social interaction I am using the metaphors of Social Theatre and Social Economics as described by Edgar Shein.
You. Are. Your. Own. H.R. Manager.
How can social media support you in your ‘Me Inc’ journey? Wrong question. We can no longer afford not to engage. Being a Me Inc means being your own HR manager.
If it takes too many Screens, it ain’t Communication
Screens exert an enormous gravitational power that pulls the effectiveness of a communication downward. Being aware of this power will make us use these screens more consciously.
