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    Diversity of Minds – Knowing Better

    July 8, 2019 / No Comments
    Diversity Minds - Knowing Better

    We do not know better.
    We know differently.
    Sometimes we know more
    and sometimes we know less.
    But, we never know all.

    Inherently we know, we need each other.
    Sometimes we just forget about it.
    We do not know better.

    Harald Dietrich

    Effective collaboration asks for balanced contribution of everyone. Also, it requires a high degree of acceptance, that we do not know things better than others. The things we know are based on our own experiences and our own way of thinking. But, there is a limit to our experiences, which never allows a diversity of…

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  • Social Behavior

    Learning from a Penguin – Leave the rock and start to swim

    September 25, 2018 / No Comments

    A penguin is considered to be a clumsy, stodgy animal when placed on a rock in a zoo. But if it jumps into the water, it becomes one of the most amazing, economic swimmers you can find amongst all animals. There is a tremendous power in diversity and the contribution of people, which can work…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    We need more people who take care for the HOW

    September 23, 2018 / No Comments
    Title Photo - Woman on a stand searching for something further away

    I am an engineer and I am working in the software industry for many years now. Nowadays I take care for people - developers, team leaders, but even many more employees involved in running a successful business. I try to be a servant leader, who works with the people. Decisions are taken with the people…

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  • Organization Design

    Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter

    October 1, 2017 / No Comments
    Diverse Teams

    In recent years a body of research has revealed another, more nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: nonhomogenous teams are simply smarter. Working with people who are different from you may challenge your brain to overcome its stale ways of thinking and sharpen its performance. Let’s dig into why diverse teams are smarter. [button url=”https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter”  target=”_blank” size=”small”…

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Teams – the fundament for the agile way

    August 8, 2017 / No Comments
    Teams - the fundament for the agile way

    When we start to become more agile, we start to look at the mindset of people and how they collaborate. We are considering teams to be the fundament for growth and success. Conformity is no objective at all, contribution of individual talents to a group is what we strive for. Where diversity meets collaboration, you…

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  • Organization Design

    23 Things to know before starting an agile organisational transformation

    July 1, 2017 / No Comments

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  • Organization Design

    Achieving something special

    June 1, 2017 / No Comments

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    An Appreciation for Uncertainty

    May 25, 2017 / No Comments

    Uncertainty is something we try to avoid – whenever possible. We want to know what we need to know, to be able to come up with reliable plans. Plans are supposed to keep deviations away from us, as they could make us struggle. Uncertainty can be seen to impose scepticism, doubt, mistrust. But it is…

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