Year: 2019

Everyday Sabotage

Are you tired of end­less meet­ings and a nev­er-end­ing cycle of office life? The Sim­ple Sab­o­tage Field Man­u­al, pub­lished by the Office of Strate­gic Ser­vices (pre­de­ces­sor of the CIA) in 1944, reveals tac­tics for under­min­ing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and morale in orga­ni­za­tions. Even today, these tac­tics are alarm­ing­ly relevant.

The Crux of Meetings

Just like T., the pro­tag­o­nist in last week’s frag­ment of my nov­el “On the Handrail into the Deci­­sion-Mak­ing Cir­cle”, many peo­ple are con­front­ed with the same sit­u­a­tion several…

Complex or Complicated?

The naive and intu­itive use of lan­guage some­times mix­es and over­lays things that should be clear­ly dis­tin­guished. Pop­u­lar among edi­tors are, for exam­ple, the terms appar­ent­ly and seemingly.…

In Titanic’s Ballroom

Sever­al so called agile trans­for­ma­tions ulti­mate­ly end with peo­ple danc­ing rock ’n’ roll instead of a slow waltz in Titan­ic’s ball­room and some beau­ti­ful­ly dec­o­rat­ed deckchairs. And even if…