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The small grove in the city park can be easily surrounded. The woodland that stretches from Scandinavia to the farthest
The forest - the ideal metaphor for system complexity
In our deepest inner self, we are all experienced communicators, because we interact with others every day. Already before we
Mistaken I-message
A negotiation is the interest-driven tug-of-war to attain an agreement. This may be purchasing hardware, agreeing a service or other
Negotiation is mutual enrichment
Digitization virtualizes business processes and overcomes physical limitations. How long will it take, until we are no longer ordering a
Is there a right moment?
Everything follows the path from the cradle to the grave. This applies to life cycles of products, styles, corporations, technologies,
The tree - the ideal metaphor for life cycles
The quality of products and services is in the created deliverables and in the eyes of the consumers, not in
The dead end of external reviews
The roles within the scope of agility are Product owner, Scrum master and Development team. The team is not further
Agile players - people with special qualities
After four years of regular writing this post is the two hundredth in English. On this occasion I think verbally
Writing for the sake of writing
In sports, personals efforts determine the performance. The athletes exercise for years to release the trained strengths at the right
The wind - the ideal metaphor for influencing factors
The modern workplace is moving. Globalization, information society and digitalization are transforming the working environment powerfully as at the advent
What is wanted
After years of organizational development, lifelong learning has come to business reality with the Generation Y. Born between 1980 and
Every task an adventure
A key without a lock is as useful as a lock without a key. In any case, these two objects
The key - the ideal metaphor for a solution
What is said, when the listeners do not understand, what they are hearing? “As a producer of traditional food made
The best example remains the practical example
The world in which we live has only the categorization that we apply to it. For this purpose, outlines are
Fractal madness
Shortly after the crash of the Wall Street in New York (1929) Bertolt Brecht found the right words in the
Today’s system-relevant addictions
Common sense tells us that anything adapts to what already is there. Spheres, not cubes, come out of a sphere.
From nothing simply nothing comes
The biggest hurdles in designing the future are the constraints that slow us down because we are not aware of
Simply overwhelming
In times of populism, words are charged with meaning. The meaning of a word actually arises in the mind of
Charging words with meaning
A water flow that evolves from the well to a creek, to a powerful stream has characteristics, which also constitute
The River - the ideal metaphor for the business process
Changes happen in any form and magnitude. If the look at the world changes from a flat disc to a
Clearer through scaled quantum leap
Changes always take place in a complex environment with various aspects. For controlling purpose boundaries of the areas to be
Billiard - the ideal metaphor for the management of change
In digital times, not many people are aware of how limited bivalent choices are. Even though the analogue reality takes
Explore with PO potentials
Bonsai is the art of influencing the growth of trees in such a way that the trees have a beautiful
Agility does not tolerate a bonsai style
For good reason have religions the tendency of demonizing pictures. The faith is threatened by information. Figurative representations have the
Seeing is believing
In retrospect, it was always difficult to recognize the valid set of rules in large enterprises. In the best case
If we regulated, what we regulate
Heraclitus already recognized that everything is changing incessantly - everything flows. Thus you cannot step twice into the same river.
Transition is the overlay of all modifications
The way from the idea to the finished text, with all its illustrations and formatting, follows in many cases a
Form follows the life cycle
A gate agent of an US airline recently denied boarding to passengers for improper clothing (leggings). The Paris Opera expelled
What remains for most of us?
Agile activities are determined by the acting people, who produce seizable results. Each particular aspect that makes a contribution to
Conserve energy in agile activities
Companies that already exist and grew for a long time mastered many challenges - changed market requirements, new technologies, and
(Fr)agile
Restraint (遠慮) became in the course of the centuries a central attitude of the Japanese culture. The associated, apparently non-binding
Advantages of modesty
Enterprises are always looking for new ways, in order to set themselves up in the best way by smartly distributing
Mortar - the ideal metaphor for the purpose of Governance
Thinking about agility, we have in mind the everyday life of hundred-year old people, who live their life with good
The agility of the elders
If Socrates would have already known the term, one of his famous sayings would have been going like this -
Beyond the informational bubble
The Great Wall will remain with its over 21.000 km for the foreseeable future the largest border of the world,
The wall - ideal metaphor for boundary
Heraclitus created with Panta rhei (Greek: Everything flows) the bases for a new world view more than two and a
Water - the ideal metaphor for data
The larger a ship, the larger is the crew. This includes the simplest sailor to the captain - in any
The ship - the ideal metaphor for the scope
Still thirty years ago, you one reached the public by means of special channels - daily papers, magazines, radio, and
Right or wrong - a question of the point of view?
The misbelief of managers and consultants that change is nothing else than a button, which is simply switched and the
Change is more than an “Oh, I see”
Water and sand, bees and ants as well as large herds and crowds, all follow a common principle. Frozen water
The flipside of the way of the slightest resistance