When Columbus set out to discover America, he didn’t have a map that had America on it. That was the whole point of discovering it. Centuries ago people were sailing the world with incomplete maps. Some knew that the earth was a sphere. A globe. A ball. A round thing. Some maps were created representing …
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 …
Sometimes I go into “Big Words” mode. Or more appropriately: Scientific-Sounding-Me. Last weekend I posted a piece about three balances that play a role in resilient groups. Big words. I’ll try to easy down on them in this second part. Before I start. My good friend Ali Anani suggested I use a cube as an …
Sometimes you shift to automatic pilot. When your brain is tired, you react instantly to information. Every stimulus gets a fast and automatic response. Fear locks your brain too. “Our people, good. Other people, bad.” “Mac, good. Windows, bad.” “Same, good. Different, bad.” This “automatic pilot” is based upon our mental model that happens to …
For two years there is a conversation in the comments of The Project Shrink that pops up once in a while. It’s one of my favorites. Why do we do what we do? Are our industry’s best practices really that, or do we merely say they are because as a PM we are expected to …