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The Vlerick business school did a nice event for expats some weeks ago about the process of decision making. Prof Kerstin Fehre made us realize the amount of decisions we take every day. To improve the process of taking a decision, she said we should not evaluate our decision based on the outcome: A decision Read More …
Some time ago I attended a PWI event and Elisabeth Van Den Bergh was the special guest on this occasion. As an expert in communications, she gave us very valuable information to do public presentations. The 3 key components in any communication, she said, are: Confidence: how you convey the message Content: the message itself Read More …
The feedback fallacy article from Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall challenges our actual assumptions on feedback. Th later tendencies in management go for transparency and openness to constructive criticism. People are encouraged to give and receive feedback regularly on the assumption that this will drive them towards excellency. The authors point out that studies show Read More …
I just participated in the selection process of the Harvard Business Review “McKinsey award for best HBR article” for 2019. The three articles nominated for the prize where very interesting, but the one by Alison Wood and Leslie K. John caught my attention because it was about questions. Are you good at asking questions? Do you Read More …
This article by Ayelet Fishbach in the Harvard Business Review is giving us advice right in time to be used on our New Year’s resolutions! He mentions 4 strategies to motivate yourself: Design Goals, not chores: chores are those tasks that you don’t enjoy though you may like the outcome (the very explicit example Read More …
I went the other day to an Agile Serious Games session organized by Wemanity, and we did nice exercises to illustrate the values and advantages of Agile Management. If you’re not familiar with the expression ‘serious games’, it’s used when playing a game that has a professional purpose, that makes the participants experience a problem Read More …
I went to an open event at Vlerick, and Prof. Miguel Meuleman gave us a talk on the Entrepreneurial Mindset. He gave us good tips to find business ideas. Based on the six-year study behind the book The innovator’s DNA, he mentioned these 4 discovery activities that the authors have identified as the ones in Read More …
I just came by this old article from Ian Leslie in The Economist magazine, it’s about a thought: embrace difficulties when they arise, they force us to be more creative and bring more satisfaction when we overcome them. There are two ideas intertwined here: the first one is that when things come too easy, we don’t savor them enough. Read More …
Walter Vandervelde did a presentation at Professional Women International on creativity this month. He taught us how to kill our internal dragons to be more creative 😉 NONO, the dragon of the criticism, prejudices and conservatism: Change your automatic reply from ‘yes but’ to a ‘yes and’. That will stop criticism and you’ll feel the Read More …
I’m an eternal learner. There are so many interesting things that time is precious, so when I came accross this MOOC I couldn’t but enroll and check it out. Anything that helps learning stuff while reducing the needed studying time really appeals to me! I’m talking about the online course from Coursera called Learning how Read More …