Author: eikesblog

  • Spiritual Management

    Spiritual Management

    It’s a strange thing to be in the middle of my life. The urge to say ‘Mommy and daddy, look what I can do already’ has long now subsided. Instead I am beginning to suspect that not far from now my kids will start to ask the universal question: ‘why, daddy?’ Maybe I am projecting…

  • The Art of reporting

    The Art of reporting

    A realization about reporting The other day for what seems to me like the umpteenth time I read a line like the following in the monthly reporting: “The software module is still much too slow.” I was already getting up to have a chat with the author when a realization hit me. Before that moment…

  • Dr Eike Schmidt blogging

    Dr Eike Schmidt blogging

    My name is Dr Eike Schmidt. In this post I will give you a little bit of background information about me as context to my posts. See the about page to learn more about why you should not miss this blog. You might also want to read here about the thinking that is behind Kikentai…

  • Kikentai management: the concept

    Kikentai management: the concept

    Hello World! As this is my first blog post I might as well explain the title ‘Kikentai Management’. ‘Ki Ken Tai Ichi’ is a japanese phrase commonly used in the context of sword fighting (or martial arts in general). It refers to the unity (ichi = one) of mind/spirit (ki = energy), tool/weapon (ken =…