You have 30 seconds to draw in the audience at the start of your meeting, speech, or presentation. Frankly, I don’t know if 30 seconds is always true. In my experience, it’s even less than that. There are three strategies […]
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One famous episode of the comedy series Seinfeld showed a long line of people anxiously awaiting their turn in a line leading to a soup restaurant. Surprisingly, the store owner was unpleasant and egregiously rude, even refusing to serve one of the […]
Frasier was a popular sitcom which aired in the nineteens. The star of the show, Dr. Frasier Crane, was a radio psychiatrist. His catch-phrase while on the air was a simple one ‘I’m listening…’ I was reminded of this recently when […]
A Pressure Safety Valve (PSV) is a safety device widely used in the chemical industry. When a chemical reaction becomes uncontrollable and pressure increases rapidly, a PSV opens and pressure is released to a safe location to prevent the vessel […]
Some 20 years ago I worked closely with a brilliant scientist to develop a mathematical model of a complex chemical reactor. He was a nice guy, whose main satisfaction was to be right in the modeling field. That was a […]
Last year I visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam with my family. The room with the most famous paintings of the most famous Dutch masters was packed. The other rooms in the museum were almost empty. A small amount of exhibits […]
How do you create a success environment where all team members can bring their best? There are five roles which you need to play to make people feel safe, energized and productive. Which of these five roles do you need to […]
Whenever I’m in Italy, I enjoy a good espresso. There is one barista who is the best. Even when using the same machine, the same technique, and the same coffee, other baristas can’t match the quality of his espresso. He […]
Success is often achieved by simply avoiding mistakes. There are five big mistakes if you want to build a high-performance culture in your team or organization.
Recently, I wrote about how to lead a team of experts, when you’re not an expert yourself. Let’s focus on the other side of this coin: As a deeply knowledgeable subject expert, how do you help your subject-ignorant boss to […]
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