How to Grow Beyond Blame and Justification
In the last couple of years a lot of people started to ask me how to get others to change and take responsibility. Most of the time these questions come from people wanting others to do things for them. Sounds familiar? Well that is exactly how it should not be done! As a member of […]
How to Think With Little Bricks?
Guestblog by Erwin Verweij, iFacilitate.eu As a kid I used to play with Legotm. It wasn’t as diverse as it is today but I managed to build great things with a lot of imagination and the few bricks I had. I grew up and became less interested in the stuff. Years later I had a […]
Delegation is an Art! Point finale.
In this rapidly changing world where change itself has changed, we need more people to be part of the system to provide evolutionary, disruptive and open innovation! Internet connections, data storage, mobile devices, genome sequencing, everything today is growing at an exponential rate where organizations need to be more adaptive, and change as fast as change […]
The Key Difference of Innovation vs Business As Usual
In times of economic crisis it is important for organizations to optimize their effectiveness in order to survive. In many cases, people jump to cost optimization, only looking at their bottom line. And there is nothing wrong with that, as long as you don’t forget the role of the customers and end-users. In many cases […]
Customers benefit from delighting suppliers!
In september 2012 Jurgen Appelo wrote about delighting your supplier in relation to delighting your customer(s) and that in business you should delight everyone! We very much agree to most of the statements made in both articles and comply to its core message as much as possible, we like to engage into non-zero-sum quests as […]
The Intersection of Business, Education and Innovation
As the blog has mentioned at various points, different innovations and startups have different metrics for success. This makes a formulaic approach to entrepreneurship all but impossible, though there are certain trends that crop up from time to time. Writer Emma Collins explores one such trend today as she discusses the present and future viability […]
Creating clarity within a group – Ruben Van Der Laan
The discussion heated up. I simply asked all participants, a management team, to take a stance by physically putting on a scale a coloured dot. For this growing organisation I was curious to know what the management wanted: more systemisation of processes on the one hand or more self-organisation and responsibilities on a lower level. […]
49 Ways to Spice Up Your Meetings by Ruben Van Der Laan
Henry Ford would have loved producing our current day meetings the way he produced his cars. His famous ‘any colour – so long as it’s black’ would have marvelously fit the numerous meetings that are being churned out worldwide. A meeting room is a meeting room and a meeting is a meeting. All black, all […]
Help! When do you want to learn?
Within our quest to change the world of work, we are always looking for better ways to support our community members and we are wondering when you prefer to attend a paid workshop. With “paid workshop” we refer to our “In the Brain Of” sessions as well as one-day classroom trainings like our Personal Kanban & Gamestorming […]
How to grow performing teams?
During our most recent “Leadership Retreat” we explored the difficulties to grow performing teams, teams where people gell with each other and achieve unseen results. We had 2 teams that competed in a simulation that started from a group of people that have to work together but do not know each other at all, towards […]