What your organisation can learn from the Eurovision Song Contest about diversity
Blog by Anne van Marwijk In the wake of the protests of last summer and the efforts of activists, many companies are asking themselves how to become more inclusive. They are asking themselves how to change their inclusive ideals into practical reality and how they can...
Serious Gaming and Higher Education
Let us not only teach the facts but also teach the experiences that bound these facts to our memories. The case of Perspectivity Climate Change Challenge in higher education.
The Arab Spring’s complexity
Last December, it was ten years since Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, which sparked a series of revolutions across the MENA region. Looking back at the developments in the last decade, it might be tempting to take stock of the current situation and to conclude that the ‘Arab Spring’ has failed. But it would be unfair and unwise to do so.
Blog: Jumanji – Public Health Challenge becoming reality in COVID times
Blog a collaborative effort by Nohad ElHajj, Anne van Marwijk and Herman van der Meyden Many of you will have seen the movie or read the book ‘Jumanji’, a story in which a group of teenagers plays a game that then becomes reality, with the teenagers themselves as...
Book tip: Range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world by David Epstein
Book tip by Mark Snijder: "I myself sometimes doubted whether I made the rights choices. When I was studying International Relations, I had fellow students who were directly preparing themselves for a career in international diplomacy. They became members of student...
Book tip: Changing on the job by Jennifer Garvey Berger
Book tip by Tereza Herodková "At Perspectivity, we are all about complexity. We usually have the complexity of social systems in mind - the C from the term 'VUCA world' (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous). When you talk with us, chances are that the topic will...
Book tip: Polarisation, understanding the dynamics of us versus them by Bart Brandsma
Book tip by Han Verhoeven The book 'Polarisation, understanding the dynamics of us versus them' by Bart Brandsma is an insightful boek about the dynamics of conflict and polarisation, about how they interrelate and about how you can effectively deal with...
Get rid of the project manager – or change its role!
Podcast about scrum project management with Petra de Boer recorded by MDF. Are you a project manager and wondering if scrum can help you to manage your projects more effectively? Listen to Scrumming the night away, an MDF-podcast about the benefits of using scrum with...
Blog: What are ‘Liberating Structures’?
Blog by Lara Minnaard In our daily lives, we are constantly confronted with complex problems. How we deal with these problems is different for every person and every situation. But for all complex problems, different people have different pieces of the puzzle to...