by Louise Brace Critique, or criticism, feedback or evaluation? As a team leader you have to be constructive in your approach to giving feedback. Teams and individuals need to appreciate why they are receiving feedback, in a way that makes them take immediate action and without causing too much of an ‘ouch’ factor. And how...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Management 3.0 is dedicated to changing the culture of work. One way to do that is by identifying both your core values or “who you are” as a team, as well as the wish values or “who you want to be” as a team. Here is a series of exercises I’ve cobbled together that hopefully can...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo We practice what we preach. And so it is with the merit money idea (a peer-to-peer bonus system) that we borrowed from Management 3.0 and that we have implemented with Bonus.ly. Yesterday, we had a brief retrospective about the practice. We have been using it for 9 months now. This is what...
Read moreby Louise Brace In a TED Talk, educationalist and author Sir Ken Robinson spoke of the extraordinary capacities that children have for innovation. Growing up we are naturally creative, inquisitive and with exceptional talent, which Sir Ken believes is squandered during our education. By the time we reach adulthood, our creativity has been literally ‘educated out of...
Read moreby Louise Brace Editor’s Note: This blog was written when Management 3.0’s parent company was called Happy Melly One and when we had launched an experimental project called Happy Melly, which focused on happiness at work. Today Happy Melly has been absorbed by Management 3.0, which is part of the Happy Melly Group. What does...
Read moreby Louise Brace Editor’s Note: This blog was written when Management 3.0’s parent company was called Happy Melly One and when we had launched an experimental project called Happy Melly, which focused on happiness at work. Today Happy Melly has been absorbed by Management 3.0, which is part of the Happy Melly Group. HOur company...
Read moreby Louise Brace These days we spend so much time striving for perfection, we often overlook the lesser successes, and failures, that should be celebrated. We forget to applaud employees who do their job well and to appreciate the little, everyday triumphs, that make up good practice in our business. Actually it’s more accurate to...
Read moreby Louise Brace How well do you know your work colleagues? Their hobbies, ambitions or personal background? Forming closer connections with your team members, leads to improved team collaboration. You’ll learn what fires their ambition and keeps them motivated. As a manager, you can sometimes feel disconnected with the pulse of your team. So how...
Read moreby Louise Brace At Management 3.0 we believe feedback in the workplace is key to bringing out the best in your coworkers. We also believe in rewarding employees who do great things. What we don’t believe is traditional bonus schemes i.e. paying for results, are the best way to reward someone. How many of you strive...
Read moreby Louise Brace It seems lately the world is becoming more focused on how to be happier. Studies are being published on the happiest countries, happiest companies, happiest ways to live, happiest pets, best ways to be happy. And hey, that’s a great thing! We love to see people happy. The world is definitely a...
Read moreby Louise Brace If you don’t know what Merit Money is, let me enlighten you! Merit Money is a reward scheme, where the whole team rewards each other, based on our perception of an individual’s merit during the month. You are given a certain number of merit points each month and you distribute them to...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo OKRs are a mix of the PDCA cycle, stretch goals, SMART goals, the Lean Startup method and Management by Objectives. Basically, it’s all of them wrapped up in one agile management practice. So many metrics, so little time. The lyrics of the actual song, one of my favorites from the 80s, were...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte Sometimes the life of an imaginary entity is rather easy. I never have to say ‘no’ to chocolate. If things get too busy, I can work 24/7. And I never have to negotiate my salary for the simple reason that I don’t get one. Of all the peculiar things of mankind, the...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte Although starting a new challenge is always great, the first couple of days at a new company often are not. New employee orientation usually is made up on the go. As a result, people can feel quite lost. As a friend of mine once told me, “You have no clue about what...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte We believe that good management shouldn’t be just about practices, but even more about principles. Management 3.0 for instance isn’t a ‘method’. It’s a concept. On the other hand, in order to learn how to do things, people need concrete practices. Things they can work on, starting next Monday. One of those...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte *Ping* Ah, email. And a good one at that: my friend Robie Wood with a great story. Robie works at showVALUE, a company that specializes in agile management, training and other stuff like that. With 31 years of solid experience, he’s an old hand in the business. Anyway, he recently read Jurgen...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte People always ask me tons of questions. Of course, lots of questions are about change management and organizational change. Lately I heard this one: “We want to work on innovating in our organization. How can we get started?” The story my friend Florian Hoffmann told me came to mind. Starting change bottom...
Read moreby Sabrina & Seedbox Growth. It’s the magical word in economics. And sure, growth is good. But, as we’ve seen many times before, growth comes with a whole new set of problems. Take company values for example: you can put something in a mission statement, organize team-building sessions, focus on teamwork activities and, for good...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte As our CEO, excuse me, our Chief Ecosystem Officer, once poetically said, “A practice that has infiltrated the western business world like a pestilence in a shanty town is the annual bonus system.” The last couple of years we’ve all came to know some of the results of that of course. One of...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte How can you change – dramatically – a government organization? Well, big organizations and flexibility, that’s not always a match made in heaven. And when it comes to big organizations, few are larger than a government. My Dutch friend Berend van Duijvenvoorde told me the story of his heroic quest for agile...
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