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Getting ready for collaboration

Posted on 14 March 2018

Clément Ader invented man-powered flight (and not the brothers Wright)

Our society glorifies the one or two persons that finalise an invention up to a point the rest of us can finally imagine its potential. Before that point,

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Are you ready for the new game?

Posted on 18 February 2015

The game called collaboration

‘If collaboration is cool, if cross-functional working is so amazing, why do we build these huge hierarchies?’

That’s Eddie Obeng talking, in his great TED-talk ‘Smart failure for a fast-changing world’.

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‘Self-management invariably works better than hierarchies’ – Interview with Richard Hames

Posted on 22 November 2013

Richard Hames is a corporate philosopher and knowledge designer. He is one of the most influential strategic foresight practitioners currently around. I had the chance to experience Richard’s wit, intelligence and sharpness in projecting the future of our world and its consequences for society,

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The mirror we are ourselves

Posted on 18 May 2013

‘Well! If you can’t handle it, I’ll do it!’ She almost screamed the sentence then stood up and left the meeting room. She went straight to her working space, fell in her chair and gazed through the window.

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Celebrating 1 year of innovation / change / participation

Posted on 14 December 2011

Hurray! My site has reached the young age of 1.

And look at all the possibilities that exist with number 1.

1 quote: ‘It’s better to be 3rd instead of 1st’ Malcolm Gladwell

1 thing I’m thankful for: Ella,

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Why leaders should get themselves loved

Posted on 30 September 2011

‘Yes, but the whole meeting should be designed in such a way that we get them where we want’. That were tough words and it framed the meeting unequivocally. My client knew what she wanted. And she was not willing to let others interfere with her plans.

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Meetings: the golden window of opprtunity for change

Posted on 30 August 2011

When an organisation asks me to lead a change, the way meetings are run is rarely a topic of discussion. Points of attention are typically the organisational chart, job descriptions of the new positions (especially at higher level) and typology of the new culture.

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The 2 rules for an engaged meeting

Posted on 25 July 2011

There are two rules for an engaged meeting:

How well you plan, the meeting will always go wrong,
If the meeting does not go wrong, you had a sub-optimal meeting.

When I started working as an office clerk some 12 years ago nobody had told me these rules.

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Harnessing your nervousness while working in groups

Posted on 20 June 2011

We were all standing with a partner and asked to keep our arms straight while our partner would try to pull it down. I made a fist and stretched my arm up in the air. After an intense effort my partner succeeded in pushing my arm downward.

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Start making your own advice!

Posted on 19 May 2011

Why would you hire an external consultant? Granted, if the consultant has a set of expertise your organisation does not have, then the question is quickly answered. We need you as a consultant because you know stuff we need but don’t know.

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