By Ali Anani and Bas de Baar In this part of the Fish Pond Series we will show how people are on a continuous OODA loop going through life. The effectiveness is depending on the amount of solid processed information. While traveling through life you have positions where you have more of the proper information …
Of all the discussions I write about on this site, there is one dilemma that I think is the most fundamental of all; one essential choice for managers to make: are you going to use a directive top-down leadership style, or are you more leaning towards a bottom-up facilitating kind of attitude? I know, this …
In the previous post I used a picture of myself leaving the medina of Fes, Morocco through the gate. For me, this old city is a great illustration of human complexity. When discussing abstract concepts like networks of humans, complex adaptive systems and their fractal nature (a society is a large organization, an organization is …
If your project team is spread all over the globe, you will sometimes scare yourself with the amount of prejudice you have when dealing with people from different cultures. I know I do. Humans have a tendency to categorize everything, including people. Stereotyping can be dangerous, because it tries to say something about an entire …
Seth Godin has created a list of business cliches, language you hear to often in companies. It inspired me to the image below. You know any PM cliches?