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...
Book tip: The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles Mann
Book tip by Petra de Boer "The (Christmas) holidays are the ideal time-out for me to dive into a good book. A fat and dense one, during which I do not want to be disturbed. 'The Wizard and the Prophet' by American journalist Charles Mann had been on my list for...
Blog: What were you ordered for? by Maurice van Hoek
Blog from the network by Maurice van Hoek Do you work on (temporary) assignments, on projects or on a permanent job? Then it is essential that you can answer the question: 'What was I ordered for?' An example: My son plays football. He is playing an exciting...
Book tip: How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniël Ziblatt
Book tip by Charlotte Keijzer: If there is one urgent book you should read at this moment, it is ‘How Democracies Die’. The authors, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniël Ziblatt take us on a historical tour around the world and present a deep...