Purpose Over Targets
I recently gave someone my business card, because he asked for it during an interesting conversation. A few days later, to my surprise, i...
I Hated Management, Now I Love It
I remember well that I hated management, many years ago. I hated checking whether people had done what I told them to do. I hated doing p...
Who Needs a Head Office?
Some years ago I was in a meeting with the marketing coordinator of a local office of Rabobank, one of the three big Dutch banks. They wa...
Stop Blaming the System!
I see it again and again. The suggestion of systems thinkers and Agile writers to stop blaming people and instead try blaming the system....
The 60 Percent Rule
For a shared identity to work, it is useful to know who is, and who is not, part of the group. This is sometimes quite clear, but quite o...
Identity, It’s Not Rational
Wherever I am in the world I smile a little when I glimpse the logo of KLM, TomTom, Philips, or Unilever. I once even took pictures of an...
Share Your Happy Stories
Do you have an interesting story to share about the pursuit of happiness among workers? On the new Happy Melly blog we have started publi...
The Meaning of Models
I was asked to read a few articles for a dialog seminar with my friends at KnowIt in Göteborg. The first one described the nine team rol...
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