Name’s Holger and this blog is about my ideas and learnings and especially about a social mindset in corporate culture. You can find and contact me on 🤟:
Why GYR is not quite a good idea
(1) If between very good and inadequate there is only one status that is yellow, every person that is at least a little rational would stive for a safe distance to failure (inadequate) and therefore reach something like a “four”. And if this pattern is applied (in companies) for Project Management, there will be a systemic determination for only sufficient output and results. (2) This situation can be improved by introducing a Biathlon System where a project “checks” one target after the other....
Reading List
[ ] Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones [ ] Team Topologies: Matthew Skelton [ ] Be Bad First: Erika Andersen [ ] Die 1% Methode: James Clear [ ] Von nun an anders: Robert Habek [ ] Intentionally becoming different: Alexander Trost [ ] Wenn Affen von Affen lernen: Mario Herger [ ] Working in Public: Nadia Eghbal [x] Unsere Welt neu denken: Maya Göpel...
Network Energy - WOLTS
It is so outstanding and astonishing what happens, when you are in a Working Out Loud (WOL) Circle. Photo by Thomas Kelley on Unsplash According to the pure teaching of John Stepper, you choose a goal and by improving and extending your network activities, you increase the chance for something to happen that helps you, to achieve your goal. But what really happens is: you miss your goal by miles and your networking activities can only be called a well meant attempt....
Best Things in Live are free, anyway.
Photo by Maria Siriano on Unsplash I admit, I’m a little stuck with my WOL Circle Theme: “Linking communities and organizations for a higher purpose.” I thought it would be easier to find compelling arguments for a “corporate social mind”. But the more I read, the more I find examples of implausible marketing (like H&M) and greenwashing, that is repelling for me. And a second thing, that is becoming more and more evident, especially when I read and learn from Nadia Eghbal1 about working in public, is how complicated co-coordinated work is, that is not done for money, but because every cooperator has an intrinsic motivation....
How it started
Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash When I started my appointment at my new company, I was already a member of the local FabLab and a lot - or the majority of the active members - were also employed by this company or about to be hired. We met in the evenings and exchanged ideas and knowledge about the machineries we had in our lab. And of course we recommended talents back to our company....