This is what I am trying to explain for 3 years: “Simply put, effective communication is the extent to which a message is interpreted by its recipient with the intended meaning from the sender. Communication is more effective when both the sender and receiver use the same frames of reference. However in intercultural communication this …
We all know what we “should” do to run a project. Putting the right structures and processes in place. Getting the proper authorizations and doing communication and stuff. But sometimes we are operating in unknown organizations. Sometimes we think we have the right authority, but in reality we don’t. Sometimes we just get a team …
How do you perceive your team? No really. I mean it. If you have to create a metaphor about you and your team, what would it be? Misunderstood Genius? You’ll be better off doing stuff yourself. Ah, in the old days… let me tell you about them ol’ days… Mother Hen? Making sure the chicks …
Cliche alert. To a guy with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Or, perhaps more appropriate: to a shrink every problem is psychological. I view projects as a set of social interactions. And because we all define problems, solutions and things in general from our belief system, I see most project events in terms …
In his book “Blink” Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term “thin-slicing”. “… our ability to gauge what is really important from a very narrow period of experience. In other words, spontaneous decisions are often as good as—or even better than—carefully planned and considered ones.” (Wikipedia) This “thin slice of reality” is a pattern of all things …