Blog: Reflect & Adapt
How do you keep improving in a world that is constantly on the move? 'Reflective Communication Scrum', that is the name of the publication through which Betteke van Ruler, emeritus professor of communication science, introduced Scrum in The Netherlands....
Blog: “I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk”
Blog by Michael Donnelly, Perspectivity Enterprise partner in Norther Ireland I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk This is a quote by Roddy Doyle, one of Ireland's treasures. He writes dialogue, the best dialogue. Practically...
Book tip: White is also a colour
Book tip: Reinventing Organizations – Frederic Laloux
Book tip by Diederik Prakke Laloux' must-read (or should-have-read-by-now; it's a 2014 publication) is what it claims to be: A guide to creating organisations inspired by the next stage of human consciousness. Studying organisations worldwide that independently...
Blog: Embrace uncertainty, get agile
By Petra de Boer The world is changing. With a flexible attitude we can respond better to changes. But that is not as easy as it sounds. Dare to experiment, preferably in real life. Greek philosopher Heraclitus already said it: change is the only constant. But the...
Book tip: “Lead More, Control Less” by Sandra Janoff and Marvin Weisbord
Book tip from Michael Donnelly This book may well become your go-to reference for how to make your next meeting the one that changes everything. This is not a fad new way – rather a manual with both light and heavy implications for leaders to change everything. A word...
Book tip: Sapiens: A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Book tip from Herman van der Meyden There are plenty of books that discuss the evolution of mankind and it is not likely that Sapiens would have caught my attention in the bookstore. My colleague Amar at Shell recommended it to me, however, and he insisted that I...
Book tip: Lekgotla: The art of leadership through dialogue, by Willem de Liefde
Book tip from Monique Janmaat I like this book because it stimulated an inner dialogue within myself. It shares concepts and practices about leadership and dialogue that have been used and are still used on the African continent. From my experiences it seems that in...
Book tip: Change of Era – The Netherlands tilts
By Petra de Boer “We don’t live in an era of change, but in a change of era”, states Jan Rotmans, Professor of sustainable transitions and system innovations at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in his most recent book*. A transitional period in which not only our...