The truth session effect
“Whenever there is a problem, it’s a people problem”, Gerald Weinberg A lot of the real problems we are face with cover people related issues. In a lot of cases, just talking and clarifying an issue would do a lot
The soup stone effect
I first heard the story of the soup stone in an English class. The story as I recall it goes like this. A vagabond is walking on the roads. He starts to feel hungry and approaches approaches kitchen on a
That’s wonderful, but what do you mean? #Bullshit!
Bullshit comes in many shapes and dressings. You know it when you get this fishy feeling that something is not what is should be. In a professional setting bullshit is the root cause of evil. In the best cases, leading
Is this really my problem?
There is a relationship called co-dependence which may apply e.g. in a marriage, where the husbond is an alcoholic, and the wife is frequently covering up and taking responsibility on behalf him. E.g. the husbond has been drinking and cannot
Ask or tell?
In the mid 90’es I attended a lecture in change management, by Niels Bek, organised by Delta, in Denmark. As an example of how change agents can cause resistance, Mr Bek told the following case story. A group of people
About people performance – the stretch model
This is about the ‘stretch model’, which is a useful way for verbalizing to people how you intuitively rate their performance. My view is that performance is contextual – it depends as much on the environment as it does the
Accept that most ideas are bad
It’s a fact that most ideas are bad – for innovations, new businesses, new products, etc. Once you accept this fact, you are able to effectively filter away bad ideas and focus on the ones that might be good.
From discrete deliveries to continuous flow of value
It used to be all about projects and deliveries. You delivered and then the project finished. In software engineering, what is called continuous deployment, is an example of a perfect pull system, where new code is pulled from the individual
Make a race, not a cosy cradle
Often you take too long to realize that your idea or your project will not become the success you had planned for. If something is not developing as expected, you should have a way of finding out and realizing that
Why some managers don’t care about process improvement
I once argued with the CTO of my company if process improvement could ‘save our business’. My claim was – and still is – no! There is even a very pragmatic reason why some managers do not care about process