How Can We Help Melly Shum?
In 1990 a big photo by an artist named Ken Lum was placed in Witte de With, a street in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The title of the work...
Management 3.0 Is a Way of Work
Is it a method? Is it a framework? No, it’s… what actually? In two previous posts I claimed that Management 1.0 is doing the wrong th...
Management 2.0 Is the Right Thing Done Wrong
I’ve been complaining about management 1.0, a style of management that we still see all around us. It assumes that an organization can ...
Management 1.0 Is Still All Around Us
Some people told me that the advice I give in my courses is simply common sense management. I agree. Unfortunately, common sense managers...
Blog Post #600
This blog has changed my life. I keep telling everyone that never before have I enjoyed my life and work so much as I do now. And this is...
A Sense of Ownership
People have tried to get me involved as co-author of their book. But I didn’t want to. It was not my book. Some have asked me to help o...
Management 3.0 in Chicago and Oslo
I usually don’t blog to promote individual courses, but I will make an exception this time. That’s because my courses in Chicago and ...
What’s Your Reason to Join the Stampede?
Why do people register for the Stoos Stampede in Amsterdam? Let’s try and make some educated guesses by using the champfrogs schale. Cu...
Deferred Terminology
Oh, how we love discussions about terminology… Is my course about management or leadership? Are the problems we discuss complex or comp...
People Don’t Ask Questions
People don’t bother with understanding. Really, they don’t. When I tweet something like “Maybe it’s interesting to care more abou...
My 2nd Book is Out: How to Change the World
From complexity thinkers I picked up that it is good to experiment, in safe-to-fail ways. Well, I’m now experimenting being a self-publ...
Eating Elephants
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. My Big Projects I started working on my third book. It requires a significant amount of r...
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