Social tools and mobile devices can enrich our lives and help us organize ourselves in better ways.
But one – often overlooked – aspect of the new media reality is the steep increase in distractions and alerts. Calendar alerts. Email alerts. Social network alerts. App alerts. Task management tool alerts. SMS reminders. And so on…
Science tells us [...]
I once worked in a company that used “Your simply the best (Tina Turner)” as their corporate hymn. Apart from the fact that it was utterly untrue, there is a certain arrogance to it -”simply the best, better than all the rest…” . As anyone with a little knowledge of organizational culture would now, the [...]
The Christmas Holidays is an excellent time for reviewing and reflecting. #In this post, I will make a review of 2010
When I look back at 2010 a lot of things comes to mind. I have been fortunate to meet and work with some very inspirational people, I have worked on some very challenging and innovative [...]
Also posted in life in general |
Snowden describes the age of complexity and how we need to let go of old management paradigms and use strategies such as crowdsourcing for decision making in a complex world.
And it surely feels like this complexity is actually escalating. Institutions are being torn apart, people around the globe refusing to obey authority, and bloggers are [...]
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Inspired by Chris Brogan, I share my keywords for 2010:
Value: I want to create more value for others and for myself. Value should be the key parameter for everything I sell, do or buy.
Clairvoyance: I want to see things as they are, preferably before they occur. This can only be achieved by eliminating distractions and [...]