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...
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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...
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...
Too old for agile?
A memory A few years back I watched a documentary about an entry exam for the sports university in Cologne. A middle-aged gymnastics professor commented on an exercise performed by a young man: “It...
Not invented here
In the world of software a copy comes at almost no cost (yes, I know this is an oversimplification). Still engineers (and managers) go to great lengths to reinvent/recreate things that already exist instead...
3 loyalty spheres
With the ‘lean’ and ‘agile’ movements middle management positions have become increasingly difficult. As a middle manager you are in the sandwich in every way. Most stressful is that you have to navigate 3...
Management FAQ
You send questions from time to time that I would like to answer. That’s why I decided to publish this Management FAQ. I will extend this with more questions coming in. 1. As a...
List hell: 3 reasons list are evil
Most blog posts today have the form of lists. Like “3 things you never wanted to know!”, “3 ways to escape list hell”. You know why? Because it is scientifically proven that such posts...
Dead horses: 5 reasons to ride
“When you discover that you are riding dead horses, the best strategy is to dismount.” Most of you know this saying of the Native Indians (if not, read this hilarious blog post to catch...
Assignments: Beating the principal agent
Principal agent problems: how to make work assignments work Clean handover of work packages is key to make a business work – and yet I regularly see work assignments fail. How is that possible?...
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