The Problem with Job Titles
The European Commission has, at the time I’m writing this, a “team” of 28 Commissioners. One of them has the title of President, an...
Working Software from Spotify over Comprehensive Documentation about Spotify
I have the habit of going for a walk every day, for about an hour, developing new ideas while listening to tacky music. To accompany me o...
Work-Life Integration Is Not a Goal
Recently someone told me that “work-life integration” is not desirable for most people because, as he repeated to me, nobody has ever...
About Happy Melly
Again and again researchers confirm that most people don’t like their jobs. About two-thirds of employees in the world are unhappy abou...
How to Market a Self-Published Book
Now that I’ve almost finished writing my third book I want to learn everything there is to know about publishing and marketing books. A...
How to Say No (and Sometimes Yes)
There are many things I do badly, or not at all. Exercise is one of them. And cooking. And dealing with badly formulated criticism. But t...
“You Should Use Another Tool”
When I utter a minor annoyance about Excel on Twitter, half a dozen people tell me I “should” use some spreadsheet software i...
Are You Agile When You’re Going Fast?
Last year I was in a discussion with the CEO and a dozen top managers of a mobile apps developer in Shanghai, China. The company was very...
Improvise and Catalyze
Now that we know our positive inquiry into an organization is best initiated with powerful questions, it is useful to learn a bit more ab...
What Are Powerful Questions?
Knowing that we should inquire into an organization in a positive way (see my post about Appreciative Inquiry), it is useful to know what...
From Appreciative Inquiry to Complexity Thinking
I appreciate the importance of catalyzing each other’s performance in an organization, and I think it’s worth finding out what kind o...
My Book Tour Comes to UK and Bulgaria
The priorities for my new Global Management 3.0 Workout Book Tour are based on a backlog of countries, which is in turn based on the subs...
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