The whole and its parts

The whole & its parts

Year: 2023

One best way

“Believing there is one best way to structure organizations is the worst way to manage

Tools and their Purpose

A drill is there to drill a hole. But drilling that hole may serve to

Early motivations

When talking to leaders, I’ll often hear about the elegant motivations they have. Archie, for

From investment to attachment

Whenever people envision a result, they can become attached to achieving it. However, an attachment

Fixing or improving

When the aim is to fix something, the assumption usually is that something is broken.

Riddles

Leaders or managers find themselves constantly confronted with riddles. One can also call them conundrums.

Point A

Listening to an episode of The Brainbooster I learned about Susie Meyers’s “Point A” idea.

Reciprocity and reciprocity

When people talk about reciprocity, they start with tangible or material things. They’ll be talking

The art of not reading

Arthur Schopenhauer meditated on reading books and highlighted the “art of not reading” as an

Escalation or delegation

When problems occur people will develop different reactions to their occurrence. There is the first

Gaming incentives

The idea of incentives is that people will find pleasure in receiving them and that