Stuff we’ve been thinking lately
by Jennifer Riggins I could really call this why any management workshop or leadership course fails. I’m a known hater of the MBA as a useless, overly expensive piece of paper and statement of confidence a la what the Wizard handed the Lion. But I’d be remiss to not apply that same judgment to the Management 3.0...
Read moreby Ralph van Roosmalen I started my professional career in 1997. I finished the polytechnic university and started my first job as a software developer. I loved it, talking to customers, analyzing their problems and, in the end, creating software to help them solving their problems. If it were up to me, I would be...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins To help give us a bit of inspiration and hopefully a lot of good tips, today we offer you five TED Talks on the future of management. Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation OK this is a bit boring or at least predictable, having Dan Pink on a management tips list. Yes,...
Read moreby Christof Braun Change is everywhere. Change is accelerating. Change is the new normal. If you don’t change, you get left behind. Nowadays, not changing is like moving backwards. Also see: Change Management module Are you scared yet? Or at least a little worried? Seriously, I believe all of the above statements are actually true,...
Read moreAs much as feedback is at the essence of agile product development, we often fall into the trap of Build-Build-Build and Do-Do-Do and do not seek out customer feedback.
Read moreby Sarika Kharbanda Thanks to Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0 and Managing for Happiness, I learnt the technique Delegation Board. With Key Decision Areas on the Vertical and the seven levels of delegation on the horizontal axis, to me it serves as a visible, transparent matrix structure agreement between people. I’ve now used it...
Read moreby Loïc Leofold My dear friends, we are together today in honor and to celebrate the memory of Loïc, who left us too young due to a crisis of meeting. Such could have been my funeral oration. I’d learned as a quality manager that a meeting should be prepared. I used the 7Ps Framework designed by...
Read moreby Yoris Linhares “The people here are paid to work, not to learn.” Maybe you don’t hear it at your work (lucky you) but that is something easy to hear inside some organisations where there is a mindset of dividing thinking people (managers) from executing people (workers). However, in twenty-first century market dynamics, there is...
Read moreby Eliza Rafle Being a leader is many people’s dream. Many of us grew up with a good image of a leader. For example our parents were leaders — they were leading a family and doing a pretty good job at it. Some of the best childhood cartoons featured a leader. Think about Winnie the...
Read moreby Dan Woodward How can we turn the lessons learned from tyranny of the classroom into an adult learning experience? Let’s look at Mindful Learning. I was a bit of a swot [British for smartypants] at school, but for me understanding the detail of subjects was often quite hard work. I got the concepts easily, but...
Read moreby Patrick Verdonk There are a lot of articles about the importance of designing employee engagement experiences. Many suggest that a good employee engagement starts way before somebody starts working for your company. Many companies may believe this is true, though few are acting on it. One of the reasons could be that companies find...
Read moreby Jennifer Landis You’ve heard self-help gurus talk about mindfulness and happiness. But what do they mean? What exactly is mindfulness? Will you be happier if you practice it? Many believe there’s a connection between them. Let’s explore. What is mindfulness? Most experts agree mindfulness is the focus on the here and now, with no...
Read moreby Sarah Baca Recently I had a doctor’s appointment, and the doctor was talking about how when he works with patients he gives them lots of information. That information includes exercises to help them manage pain. But getting them to actually do those exercises seems impossible. This sounded like a familiar problem to me. I...
Read moreby Alexandre Magno Ok, Spotify here is just an example. My words could also be applicable for stories from any organisation, especially for the cool ones that have inspired people all over the world, like Netflix, Buffer, Semco, Valve, Zappos and so on. Why is Spotify such a great example of company culture? Particularly if...
Read moreby Elle Draper Working together as a couple abroad wasn’t too much of a leap for us as we’d already been together 24/7 for a while before we left the UK. We spent six years together in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Now we live in a beautiful village in the hills of Almería in...
Read moreby Marjoke Franken I have been working on teams or with teams ever since I was 13 years old and started volunteering at school and the local coffee bar (real coffee, not that other stuff that has little to do with coffee). I’m not going to say that ever since that age I realized the...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Some that may read this (like, ahem, my husband) may find this quite hypocritical. I love my job, but I’m not very good at taking a step back. That’s become glaringly apparent as I’m well into my third trimester of my rather complicated first pregnancy. Soon, I’ll have to take a step...
Read moreby Nikoletta Tatár Having enough good quality restorative sleep is crucial if you want to be productive, creative, calm and just generally feel physically and mentally well. The amount of required sleep depends on many factors like gender, age, genetics, etc… The average adult needs about eight hours of sleep everyday. But who counts as the...
Read moreby Sam, Management 3.0 Team This is the second article in a two-part series about feedback. A little while back our team set out to do what we do best — experiment! We realized that it was nice to receive positive reinforcement and acknowledgement through our peer-to-peer recognition program, but that something more was missing...
Read moreby Tomas Kejzlar Why does helping others matter? The world is becoming increasingly complex. The result? Only very few of us are able to achieve something great on our own. Most of our achievements are done in teams: groups of people who help each other and therefore are able to create something even bigger that is...
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