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...
Hyper-Productivity, or Autocatalysis
The day I wrote this text I had been drawing screen designs with Paint.NET. The only reason is that, in our team of five people, I happen...
Be Selfish… Work Together
I am a selfish person. Though I gladly do things for other people, and give stuff away for free, I tend to do that when I believe I’m b...
Network Effects: Waiting for the Tipping Point
Twitter changed my life. As an introvert I have never been eager to talk about myself. But on Twitter it’s different. At times it seems...
The 9 Capabilities of Communicators
Based on our earlier observation of what communication really means, with signals traveling from one mind to another, and overcoming many...
Communicators: 2 * Three Types of People
In mathematics and sociology a small-world network is a system in which all agents can be reached from every other agent with only a smal...
It’s Only Communication When There’s Verification
One-way messages don’t count as “communication.” The traditional way of thinking of communication as “the transmission of informa...
People Don’t Listen
Yesterday I had a craving for "kapsalon". It is a local delicacy consisting of french fries, shoarma meat, lettuce, and cheese,...
To See Is to Follow
Today I started following Ashton Kutcher on Twitter. I didn't really think about this decision for long. It's just that Ashton is...
How to Do Things Your Customer Didn’t Ask For
Some time ago I got a question from Sebastiaan, one of my colleagues. He told me he was struggling with an important issue: Should we spe...
The Optimal Team Size is Five
What is the optimal size of a team? People have been trying to answer this question for ages, and there seems to be little consensus. At ...
Islands in the Stream
I recently endorsed the use of Twitter in our organization. I must have been mad. There's already so much information going around, w...
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