Published at: 10:10 am - Sunday October 11 2009
I found a new (at least for me) metaphor: people are like water. The cool thing about this metaphor is: When you manage people you can use it to learn from the engineers building channels and dams. So here are the things you can learn:
If you want to stop a certain behavior, build a dam [...]
Published at: 09:02 pm - Friday February 06 2009
Possibly the worst idea ever conceived in business is the idea to link payment to key figures. Why? Because it can only work for a single key figure: company profit, assuming that the main purpose of the company in question is to maximize company profit in the long run. If you link that number to [...]