Twelve years ago some of my colleagues celebrated New Years Eve in the office. The world of IT was braising itself for The Millennium Bug. I was partying like it was 1999. Actually it was. I spent half of the first hour of 2000 stuck in an elevator. Not because of a software bug, but …
A year ago I bought the book “Visual Meetings” (doodling for team productivity) and a Moleskine notebook (of course) on my way back from Washington to Amsterdam. At the stopover in New York I drew this: And this: It changed my work. Really. Before I just had a stack of Moleskine notebooks (what else) full …
Nobody wants to be called “a resource”. You’re “an employee”. “A team member”. “Part of a rag tag crew“. But not “a resource”. “Resource” brings the association of a cog in a machine. If you want to distance emotionally from people, it helps using a word like “resource”. It makes the relationship you have with …
Why are you actually working on this project? How did you end up here? What do you add to the team? Any clue on why you were selected? When the project is finished, what do you want to add to your resume? What additional skills have you required? What do you want your LinkedIn referrals …
“Where do babies come from?” I watched the dad move uncomfortably when his kid asked him The Question in a crowded Starbucks. “Uhm. Well.” What was there to think? You are in your thirties! I guess you get the picture by now! Let me step in here for a moment. I know Darwinism, biology, gaming …