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Continue reading →: How authentic connection is key to our well-beingAs humans we are naturally social. Our ability to create authentic connection with others has been paramount to our survival as species. As Yuval Noah Harari mentions in his best-selling book Homo Sapiens, our language and ability to cooperate and work in groups, has helped us not only to survive…
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Continue reading →: How to liberate yourself through dancingSometimes you feel that you want to liberate yourself from social constructs, personal limitations and other peoples’ expectations. But you don’t know how. Dancing is the answer. Humans across different cultures and countries have been expressing themselves through dance for thousands of years. From social and spiritual to physical and…
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Continue reading →: Adaptive Triads – A New Approach to Team Structure and DynamicsFrom ancient to modern times and from world philosophies and religions to music, sports and science, triadic structures appear in almost every facet of life. For instance in music theory, triads form the basis for almost every chord and tonal harmony. In sports, like basketball or football, players organise better…
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Continue reading →: Real teams are better than superteams of starsFrom the 1992 US Men’s Olympic Basketball team, aka the Dream Team, famously the greatest team ever assembled in the history of sports, to the annual NBA All-Star teams it seems that we love seeing superteams. But are superteams really Super Teams? Does putting together extraordinary talented individuals translate into…
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Continue reading →: Why triads are better building blocks for high performing teamsFor a long time there had been the assumption that dyads constituent the basis of teams. But I believe there is much stronger evidence that triads are better building blocks for high performing teams. Triadic structures can be found almost in every aspect of life. They seem to be playing…
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Continue reading →: How Our Social Network And Relationships Define UsOur social network defines our lives much more than we think. It shapes our views, drives our actions, and influences our behaviour. But most importantly it enable us to discover ourselves through our relationships with others. Through analysing social networks we can reveal patterns of relationships that define our influence…
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Continue reading →: Great leadership lessons by the legendary basketball coach John WoodenThe best leadership lessons come from successful people, who have taken risks, learned from their failures, and have achieved great things by remaining true to themselves and making a lasting impact on peoples’ lives. Many of them are sport coaches, entrepreneurs, business managers, politicians, and people from all walks of…
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Continue reading →: What the triangle basketball offence can teach us about successful teamworkThe Triangle Basketball Offence was the tactical system that led to the incredible success of the Chicago Bulls team of the 1990’s and the Los Angeles Lakers team of the 2000’s. But what this famous Basketball system has to do with successful teamwork in business? And what is so unique…
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Continue reading →: How to use constraints to enable self-organising teamsThe term self-organising teams was popularised in the Agile Manifesto for software development in 2001. I think that although the authors of the Agile Manifesto considered Agile teams as complex adaptive systems, they did not explicitly mention that. As a result people interpreted the term self-organising teams completely out of…
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Continue reading →: The Gantt Chart: A strange addiction that we need to get out ofThere is nothing else in the history of management that has had a bigger influence than the Gantt Chart; the famous bar chart used to illustrate project schedules. Henry Gantt, born in 1861, was an American engineer and management consultant. He studied mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, graduating…
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