Stuff we’ve been thinking lately
by 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...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte Although a lot of people I know get inspiration from management courses and books, there’s one thing they often ask themselves. ‘What can I start with this Monday? And then do Tuesday?’ Personally I don’t believe in books or practices that change the world overnight. Or on a Monday afternoon, no matter...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte Inspired by reading The Carrot Principle by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, Gary Shepherd wanted to give people the opportunity to ‘flag up colleagues they think deserve a bit of extra recognition’. But he told me he had to tread carefully, since the Brightside Group plc – the company he works at...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte Rob van Lanen, a Dutch consultant told me he often uses a Management 3.0 exercise called Moving Motivators. It’s a ‘game’ played with a series of cards with the intrinsic motivators on it. Motivators like freedom, honor, acknowledgment etc. Moving Motivators The game works as follows: you put the cards on a...
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