Month: July 2016

  • Perverted Peter Principle: cold progression

    Perverted Peter Principle: cold progression

    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. Patent pending… Where was I? Peter Principle I guess you know the classical Peter principle (see here). It is a theory…

  • Site moved to kikentai-management.com

    Site moved to kikentai-management.com

    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 old address will redirect here for a while. Cheers, Eike

  • Garbage in, garbage out: 3 reasons to avoid it

    Garbage in, garbage out: 3 reasons to avoid it

    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: “we got garbage at our input too!”. Behold! That’s a case of ‘garbage in, garbage out’. Garbage in, garbage out? On…

  • Purpose: improving effectiveness by knowing why

    Purpose: improving effectiveness by knowing why

    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 to become ‘Karate’. Why? Because Karate had a different purpose than Tode. Tode was an art of self-defense often taught in…

  • Potential Assessment: Finding the right people

    Potential Assessment: Finding the right people

    I doubt that human potential can be expressed by any single figure. On the other hand I find myself considering only 5% of my employees for 95% of my tasks. It’s always the usual suspects. So it seems I do have an intuitive concept of potential. When it comes to hiring that makes my goal…

  • Walk away line: why you should know yours!

    Walk away line: why you should know yours!

    When you take up Karate lessons you have to make one choice: whether to accept the person in front of you as your sensei – your master – or not. If you do, you are expected to put yourself into her hands entirely and follow her lead without complaint. If you don’t you are expected…