I started reading Drive – The surprising thruth about what motivates us by Daniel Pink today and that brought this TED-video to my mind: Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation.
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t [...]
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Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
A Floating Office
I subscribe to a newsletter from Springwise and this post turned up: Floating offices for two.
It’s an interesting concept, I love being by the sea and an office like that would be terrific.
Inside the Third Tribe
The Third Tribe is a collaboration between Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan, Brian Clark and Sonia Simone. Add other Third Tribers like Chris Garrett, Jonathan Fields, Hugh MacLeod, Mark McGuinness, Leo Babauta, Pam Slim, Naomi Dunford, Johnny Truant and Dave Navarro and you get an impressive set up.
I rarely join courses or forum on the internet [...]
Seth Godin and Linchpin
Seth Godin launches his latest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to Drive Your Career and Create a Remarkable Future in an unusual way. Today he is interviewed or guest post around the blogosphere, a good starting point is his own post The 2.0 media tour. I have followed some of the links and this [...]
7 Mistakes Seth Has Made Managing People
In the spirit of looking back and learning from past mistakes, @sethsimonds posts about 7 Mistakes I’ve Made Managing People. It’s a great post and we can all learn something from his list. Here is an overview of the seven mistakes that Seth made, for details visit his blog post.
• I failed to verbally acknowledge stressful [...]
Dan North on Our Obsession with Efficiency
When browsing Øredev’s videos from the 2009 conference I found another one that interests me. Dan North talks about Our Obsession with Efficiency.
The description says:
So here’s the thing, I don’t believe in efficiency. It’s our obsession with efficiency that has got us into the current technology mess, and which has led almost directly to heavy [...]
Aspects of Leadership at Øredev 2009
Thursday November 5 was the second day of Øredev 2009. I followed the track Aspects of Leadership which had this desciption:
Leadership is a fine balance between drive and the capability to efficiently and humanely manage people. The speakers invited to speak on this track have extensive experience of leadership in many different organizations and lines [...]
PM in Practice at Øredev 2009
Wednesday November 4 was the start of Øredev 2009. I decided to join the track PM in Practice which had this desciption:
Project Management is about identifying and building effective relationships with the key people and groups on which project success depends. Project Managers focus on two sets of responsibilities; managing the team and ensuring tangible [...]
Turn Almost Anything Into a Whiteboard
Have you ever felt that your Whiteboard is too small for your ideas? There is a smart solution to that. Fast Company has an article about IdeaPaint: Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard.
IdeaPaint turns virtually anything you can paint on into a dry-erase surface. Your creativity is the limit, paint walls or tables or [...]
Creative Business Valuation
37Signals posts a press release stating that 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT. The press release starts like this:
37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.
Founder Jason Fried describes one way – quite [...]
