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 …
Image by Frau Shrink. “It feels I am repeating myself. I think I brought my ideas as far as I can, on my own.” I said. “Well. That is because you’re not supposed to do this on your own.” Someone replied. I know this to be true. Fish Pond. At the beginning of this blog …
You don’t need to tell people how they should interact. If they have an opportunity to self-organize, all will be fine. Some say. No. No. You need rules that describe how people should interact. Otherwise things will be a mess. If everyone is just doing what they please, we’ll get chaos. Some say. Is interaction …
There are three interesting moments in a project. The start, the end and the red convertible in the middle. “The what?” you ask. The red convertible: “I think a project can have a “red convertible” moment. It’s that breakdown, or more that revelation, in which you remember why you were doing something in the first …
Are you good at your job, but it just isn’t showing lately? Do you have a project that doesn’t seem to end? Do you have a feeling you are running in circles? Everything seems to be repeating itself? You know you can do this, but somehow you are stuck. You might be sucked into a …