I like my plane trips to be uneventful. I prefer to be exposed to excitement and adrenaline at other times. To get me from A to B, there are dozens of people in the background who ensure that this process […]
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There are three important rules if you want to become more effective as a leader. The first rule is that it is much easier to build on strengths than to compensate weaknesses. This is only natural, as we need far […]
How do you improve safety performance? Whenever an incident occurred, the company I was working for invariably added additional safety rules. It became a reflex, full of symbolic actions, yet signifying little. In time, the safety rulebook grew until it […]
The turkey is absolutely convinced that the butcher loves it: It is being fed, housed and taken care of for about 20 months. Then Thanksgiving arrives, and suddenly the world of the turkey changes dramatically in an instant. Nassim Taleb […]
How can you make use of the advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve innovation? AI is a logic engine. It therefore excels at solving straightforward and digital problems, where answers are either right or wrong. This is especially helpful when […]
Is being lazy a strategic asset? I think it is. When the Greek hero Heracles had to clean out the Augean stables full of manure, he realized that even with his God-like powers, it would take him months of hard […]
When I was a student, I enjoyed participating in debating tournaments: The objective of such a tournament is to win a contest by arguing more persuasively than your opponent. I got so excited, that I started to use my newfound […]
A distillation column is an industrial piece of equipment which is designed to separate liquids: It consists of a series of stacked plates: Separation of the liquids occurs by selective boiling and condensation on each plate. The distillation process is […]
Ten simple behaviors to quickly build trust with your team members, your peers and your bosses: All these behaviors support consistency, reliability and credibility. Where is your biggest opportunity to improve?
Richard Feynman, the eminent physicist, once said that things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. He was referring to the bizarre world of quantum mechanics, where an electron is everywhere all […]
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