People don't resist change, they resist being changed. Awareness enables individual, organisational, and social transformation.
I've been looking into how the traditional hierarchical, "command and control" management came to be and also at what motivates individuals and high-performance teams with the purpose to discuss the role of the manager in an Agile environment. Most of the Agile frameworks don't tackle this topic, which creates quite a few issues when implementation time... Continue Reading →
Try to google "what motivates employees", and you can spend the rest of your days figuring this mystery out, browsing through thousands of results. A short but comprehensive summary is found on Science Direct. You get the overview and information on what you read on next, if you want to go deeper into the subject. In... Continue Reading →
"Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through university. On the job, people, teams, and... Continue Reading →
Or how paying a bus fine made me happy, stirred compelling conversations and revealed things about myself that I wasn't aware of... I forgot to charge my bus card, as I rarely use it. As my office is in the middle of nowhere, there's basically nowhere to buy any card so I risked it today.... Continue Reading →
Agents of Awareness 