You would imagine martial arts masters to look dangerous. Somehow we expect a fierce and grave personality. Maybe we have seen too many martial arts movies. Maybe we don’t understand Mizu no kokoro. Fact is:...
Recently I got asked: “What is the most valuable lesson from martial training for your career as a manager?” The things I believe I have learned in those 25+ years briefly flashed through my mind....
I like a healthy dose of self-criticism (more on that later). That is probably why it took me quite a while to discover the following anti-pattern: certain coworkers seem to show loads of self-criticism. They...
Sun Tzu is arguably the most well known eastern strategist. His famous book “The art of war” has almost become a part of pop culture. The book holds thirteen chapters full of advice on...
One of the blogs about Karate I love to read is Jesse Enkamp’s. Jesse – unlike me – manages to explain complex concepts using simple sentences. Great Managers and Karate Masters Recently he posted...
The other day I received two emails from my engineers. Both of them had summarized a meeting they had attended representing their respective business units. If I had not known their emails were describing...
Tons of books have been written on leadership. There are dozens of styles and concepts, each with a nice name tag attached. Maybe that is why so many managers are confused about ground rules...
In the twenty odd years I have helped organizations to improve their level of professionalism I have discovered a phenomenon that I named ‘Perverted Peter Principle’. Its mine. It has my copyright on it....
Site moved Dear readers, as this blog is taking shape I decided to have the site moved to the correct URL. So if you bookmarked this site please update your bookmark to kikentai-management.com. The...
Do you know this situation? When you as a manager comment on a team producing garbage people in that team will give you reasons. One of the most common reasons they give me is:...
Karate is not an ancient art. What we know today as Japanese Karate is only about 100 years old. Indeed it stems from on an older Okinawan tradition called ‘Tode’. But ‘Tode’ changed dramatically...
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