The whole and its parts

The whole & its parts

Tag: group dynamics

Seeking benefits

The upcoming elections in the US have started to focus a lot of the available

Why people make jokes

Not too long ago I participated in a general assembly. While the event wasn’t very

Survival of the fittest

Diving into the way humans function there is an extraordinarily complex and beautiful system to

The source of quality

Quite often I’ll find myself astonished when learning to know an organization. In the beginning,

Risk or Recognition

Most people like feeling useful. And when they are, they appreciate being seen as such.

Dealing with Bureaucracy

In many non-profit and volunteer organizations people complain about the existing bureaucracy. They see it

Being of service

At the beginning of the last century, several well-known retailers coined sentences like “the customer

Leadership risks

The work leaders do has many facets and requires different types of skills. Organizations can

What got you here

In an article entitled “Real Work” Abraham Zaleznik describes how in the 1930s “researchers, academics,