Cultivate Informal Leadership
Leaders in a team are sometimes called “Leads” or “Chiefs,” like technical leads, project leads, chief programmers, and chief arc...
Hairdresser Bingo
This week someone asked for the name of the dog that lives on my head. So I understood it was high time to see the hairdresser again. I a...
Please Help Me Find a New Platform
I want to migrate my management30.com website to another platform. Ning has disappointed me by being a pain in the usability backside, an...
Widen People’s Job Titles
In my job as Chief Information Officer I have sometimes clashed with HR people over the chaotic growth of job titles in some parts of the...
360 Degrees Dinner
Next time the HR department wants you to deliver evaluation forms of your team members, organize a 360 Degree Dinner. That's what I d...
2 Presentations on Competence and Leadership
I have just finished two new presentations. The first one is about competence and how to grow it in your organization and development tea...
T-Shaped People
I love specialists. But specialization has its problems. It can lead to bottlenecks when specialists are unable to cope with demand, and ...
Not Left vs. Right, but Up vs. Down
Yesterday’s elections in The Netherlands were the most exciting in a long time. At one point the Dutch held all trending topics on Twit...
Social Commerce (presentation)
Last week I was in Prague to do a keynote session for Global Collect, the leading payment service provider. My session was called Social ...
How to Grow: More or Bigger?
As an employee I have always had a preference for working in small organizations, because it is much easier to make a difference in small...
Specialization in (Rugby) Scrums
Yesterday I did a presentation about Scrum for Level Up, a small IT organization in Delft. It was my standard talk, called the Zen of Scr...
And the Winner Is…
Several weeks ago I decided to have a little contest. I need some good marketing ideas for my upcoming book, and I promised my readers to...
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