working collaboratively across boundaries
This is about two groups purposefully linking up to achieve something. This involves negotiation of boundaries and can be strategic alliances or intra-organisation learning. Failure often comes from...
View ArticlePower, authority and influence
(Originally published on the OUBS Blog) Influence occurs when a person or a group affects what another person or group does and/or thinks. Power is the potential or capacity of a person or group to...
View ArticleLeadership
(Originally published on the OUBS Blog) Leadership involves influencing others to follow a particular direction or aim for a particular goa. There are three approaches. Trait theories is what makes...
View ArticleUnderstanding change
(Originally published on the OUBS Blog) The main problem is that people may not see the need for change or may think the reason is mistaken; it may threaten practices that people value highly; may have...
View ArticleHandling Change
(Originally published on the OUBS Blog) Now it’S your job to move things forward and get the change process under way in your area of responsibility. There is no one best strategy. Five change...
View ArticleGood Developers are like Milk Cows
The idea came to me in bed, bare with me a second, it turns out it is a great analogy First thing to know is that cows give milk best if they get new calves every year, and please let’s leave the...
View ArticleCreating Chance
The wonderful Change This has a good presentation by Peter Sims, entitled “Little Bets: Think Differently“, which is largely about entrepreneurship and finding your idea and business model. He starts...
View ArticleThe Real Life Gunter Dueck
On the 18th of March I was fortunate enough to see Gunter Dueck aka wilddueck at an event organised by Startplatz. Thanks a lot for Lorenz and Matthias for inviting me! I actually have to give it to...
View ArticleWorking Remote and Distributed or Not
Having left Adcloud and thinking about what to do next, the main focus at the moment is thinking about the setup of that next thing. One obvious part of that is where it will be and actually, does it...
View ArticleHow to hire great people
For the above subject, Google always were the light posts out there, especially with their hard questions, brainteasers and numbers driven approach. Now Google admits that the brain teasers really...
View ArticleBook Review: The Year without Pants by Scott Berkun
First off, it’s a great book. In The Year without Pants Scott Berkun gives a good view into the daily workings and culture of Automattic, the company WordPress among others. Here are some of my...
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