Creative Thinking • Wu-Wei XP

3-Cs of Thinking: Creative Thinking

Marko van Gaans — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 04:16:44 +0000

Diverging Your Water Wings This article is about Creative Thinking, arguably the most important skills of the 3-Cs. We’ve actually already done a bit of creative thinking with the Five Hats of Thinking technique I introduced you to in a previous article, but … there’s so much more to creative thinking than that. Before I…

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Reinventing Gratuity | A Merit Money Scheme

Marko van Gaans — Wed, 20 May 2020 09:35:11 +0000

Gratuity = Merit Money Besides salaries or wages, many organizations also provide some kind of bonus as an incentive to their employees. Great! That should motivate people, right? In and of itself yes it would. However, as the financial crisis of 2007-08 made painfully clear, bonuses or other financial incentives without proper regulation can cause…

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The Creative Team (Optimum Team Roles)

Marko van Gaans — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 08:17:04 +0000

Five, Eleven or Six +/- Three? What would be the optimum creative team size? The answer, of course, would be that it depends: a basketball team needs five players, a football team (or soccer for Americans ?) thrives on eleven and the Scrum guide holds that a team should contain a minimum of three and…

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The Competence Matrix: Building Better Teams

Marko van Gaans — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 08:33:12 +0000

“A team is only as strong as its weakest player” As any sports coach knows, “a team is only as strong as its weakest player” and the same is true for teams at the workplace. For this reason, an organizational environment of continuous learning is essential in order to create strong, valuable and competent teams.…

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Change Management

Marko van Gaans — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:03:34 +0000

If It Ain’t Broke …😉You Still Have to Fix It One of the most often uttered comments I hear at the end of my public workshops is, “It sounds all great… but… how do we implement all these practices?” and that’s a good question. Trying to move an organization into the realm of Management 3.0…

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