“Would you stay in this job if you’d win the Lottery?” This is the question I have started to ask our young and promising talents in the Enablers network… It came to me after reading a recent article in the Brazilian newspaper “Globo”: All employees from the restaurant Cervantes, located in a luxurious neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, did not…
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“Team dynamics are so predictable”
Friday June 15th, 2012 4 commentsMy colleagues and I are always surprised by how predictable team dynamics can be when real work is done with real teams (and not “just training”). Bruce Tuckman, a US psychologist even modeled it, reinforcing his ability to predict how a team would behave. The model (stages of group development) is quite old (1965) and widely known. If I chose…
“When Business, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Psychology meet”
Friday June 8th, 2012 0 commentsWhat do US contemporary business writer, Patrick Lencioni, XXIst century most famous neuroscientist, Portuguese Professor Antonio Damasio, Ancient Greece philosopher Aristotle, and Chilean born psychologist and mathematician Marcial Losada have in common, apart from the fact that we often quote them in our work? Lencioni came up with the observation (see article on our blog) that teams that were focused…
“A rising tide lifts all boats: transactional vs. relational”
Friday June 1st, 2012 0 commentsThis old American quote was recently used in her blog by Venessa Miemis. I will come back to it later. I take this opportunity to thank and recommend the work of Jan Gordon who is a internet curator. In other words, she publishes a kind of blog in which she summarizes the best articles she found elsewhere. You may not…