Communicate Your Goals!
Many years ago, during a board meeting, I once heard someone ask: “What was our corporate shared value of this year again?” And the C...
Free Hand-Drawn Social Media Icons
You may have noticed that I created a new layout for my blog. I think it turned out quite well, if I may say so myself. And, fortunately,...
Management 3.0: The Era of Complexity
I know. Management 3.0 is a silly name. We already have Web 2.0, Government 2.0, Project Management 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and RSS 2.0. And...
Checklist for Goals and Resolutions
Do you have resolutions for the new year? Are you defining new goals for your project or team? If the answer is yes, then you would do we...
Yes, Good Managers Are Manipulators
Are managers manipulators? Yes, I think so. Nobel Prize-winner Ilya Prigogine discovered that a complex system can only self-organize whe...
Merry Christmas!
I was in a creative mood yesterday. Merry Christmas! And I wish you much happiness and success in the New Year.
Managers Are Not Game Designers!
Conway’s Game of Life has always been a classic example of a complex system. In designing his game John Conway found that some sets of ...
Join Me at My New Site… Management 3.0!
Today I've launched a new site dedicated to my upcoming book, which will be about managing agile organizations… The site is mea...
6 Simple Questions for Bob Martin
About one year ago I published a series of interviews called "5 Easy Questions". The answers to those questions came from Steve...
Management: A Deceptive Metaphor
The observation from scientists is that rules in a complex system must be tuned for the system to be both stabilizing, lively and creativ...
Four Kinds of Trust (4): Trust Yourself!
In the situation of a manager and several team members we can identify four types of trust relationships. I describe each of these in fou...
Four Kinds of Trust (3): Help People to Trust Each Other
In management and leadership literature one of the topics most often referred to is trust. Trust between two people operates in two direc...
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