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    The Science of What Makes People Care

    September 26, 2018 / No Comments
    The science of what makes us care
    The Science of What Makes People Care

    If you want to run a proficient business, you will not come around, that good communication is key to success. But it is by far more than just sharing information. So how does a good communication strategy look like? In the article "The Science of What Makes People Care" five principles from social science are…

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  • Personal Growth

    Oh. Oh. Oh. It’s Magic – Changing Organizations

    June 12, 2018 / No Comments
    Oh. Oh. Oh. It's Magic! Changing Organizations
    Oh. Oh. Oh. It's Magic! - Changing Organizations

    Not only telling, but real involvement is the objective of my personal Meetup group in Munich. Changing organizations can be seen from a business perspective, but also from a personal point of view. Involvement and development come hand-in-hand and ask for experimentation and surprising changes of perspective. Often it looks like magic.

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  • Organization Design

    10 Components for a Successful Self-Management Transformation

    June 8, 2018 / No Comments
    Self-Management Transformation
    10 Components That Successfully Abolished Hierarchy (In 70+ Companies)

    What are the ingredients for a successful self-management transformation? K2K Emocionado has successfully transformed 70 organizations. In a guest post at Corporate Rebels, Lisa Gill takes a closer look at them and how they do it.

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  • Organization Design

    Planning a Hackathon? Read what others do

    March 3, 2018 / No Comments
    Computer screen of a participant of a hackathon
    Hackathon Projects by Big Companies: Foursquare, Paypal, Banco Sabadell

    More and more companies plan to make use of hackathon. They want to bring innovation and hidden talents to their organization. Too compelling are the various success stories, which are telling about fabulous results. They are delivered by people, who invest a small amount of their time into an inspiring challenge. The return on invest…

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  • Way of Working

    Cynefin Lego Game

    February 10, 2018 / No Comments
    Cynefin Lego Game
    Cynefin Lego Game

    The Cynefin framework is used to help decision makers to understand the domain, they are operating in. It offers four contexts: simple, complicated, complex, chaotic, and disorder. They offer a "sense of place" from which to analyze behavior and decide how to act in similar situations. In general it is important to know what type…

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  • Way of Working

    A Discussion on SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, Spotify, and more

    December 28, 2017 / 1 Comment
    Agile Uprising Logo
    SAFe vs LeSS vs Nexus Vs Spotify method, etc

    Lot's of discussions are going on in the internet on possibilities to scale agile. There are various frameworks, which are gaining more and more popularity. This post points to one of the discussions at Agile Uprising on the topic.

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  • Way of Working

    Stopping the Enterprise Death Spiral with Mob Programming

    December 23, 2017 / No Comments

    “Let’s say you are at a company with 10 people; price’s law states that approximately 3 people will be responsible for half of the productivity of value. Scale that out to 100 and now it’s 10 people who are responsible for half the productivity of value. Now scale that to 10,000 and you have 100…

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  • Way of Working

    Experiment Together. Improve Together. Win Together

    November 29, 2017 / No Comments

    “An organization that establishes safety as a prerequisite and experiments together, will improve together, and win together.”

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  • Leadership Skills

    6 Ways to Motivate Individuals to Become a Winning Team

    November 20, 2017 / No Comments

    “Intrinsic motivation is essential for high-performing teams. Those leaders who understand the difference between internal and external motivators and know how to harness them will have the edge on their competition, on the field or in the marketplace.” “Praise the effort, not the outcome.”

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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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  • Way of Working

    Prioritizing product features using the Kano model

    October 1, 2017 / 1 Comment

    One of the challenges product teams encounter, is how to decide which features should be included in their products. Identifying the user needs, helps teams to focus on what a product should deliver to address a certain type of user. In time, teams develop many ideas on how to address these needs. The Kano model…

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  • Way of Working

    The #NoEstimates debate: An unbiased look at the origins, arguments, and thought leaders behind the movement

    September 19, 2017 / 1 Comment

    There are many points on which Zuill (who first blogged about completing a project sans estimates in 2012) and Kretzman (a strong critic of the #NoEstimates movement and a supporter of the continued use of estimates when effective) actually agree, giving both sides of the debate common ground on which to build a continually better…

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  • Leadership Skills

    How to Involve Your Team in Creating Vision and Strategy

    August 20, 2017 / No Comments

    One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is thinking they are supposed to have all the answers, especially when it comes to vision. There is a natural desire to look like you are smart and know what you’re doing. But sometimes the smartest thing you can do is to involve your team in creating vision…

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  • Way of Working

    Out of sight, out of mind? 5 Virtual Team Building Activities

    August 18, 2017 / 2 Comments

    65% of remote employees report that they never had a team building session. Having co-workers spread across two or more locations is becoming a model more and more organization will have to adapt to. Stop hesitating, but look for ways to cope with co-located colleagues in a better way. Here are some virtual team building…

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  • Way of Working

    Visualizing Product Development Work

    August 9, 2017 / No Comments

    “Whenever you’re thinking high level, someone will bring you down to earth and ask you to get into the weeds. Whenever you’re in the weeds, someone will complain that you’re not being high level enough. It’s the burden we bear. Just when you think you’ve figured things out, you’ll encounter a person who needs to…

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