Revisiting Kourosh It has been a while since I visited "Workflow: beyond productivity" by Kourosh Dini. I am still working on a number of articles that bring the ideas in his book to a corporate context. This post is not among those articles. I want to talk about start-ups and one of the challenges they … Continue reading The start-up challenge – realizing your vision depends on the right context
Category: Stream of Consciousness
A quick note on inspiration
In recent weeks I've realized that inspiration is a bizar animal. It will often approach under constrained conditions. Imagine having all the tools in the world at your disposal. You will focus, but most likely on the tools and not on the content you wanted to produce. Imagine now a situation in which you are … Continue reading A quick note on inspiration
The pressure to perform – stealing from our children
Perform or else Each start of a school year I am surprised about the enormous pressure we dare put on our children. Such an amount of requirements we put on their shoulders. And if they fail to live up to our high expectations, we send them for assessment and evaluation, because something must be wrong. … Continue reading The pressure to perform – stealing from our children
The state of EWRM part II – The hijacking of EWRM
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" - The Usual Suspects Hijacking and repurposing a concept The iconic 1995 thriller "The Usual Suspects" is in essence about the imaginary creation of a super villain the police go chasing after, ignoring the real scheming criminal that literally walks away … Continue reading The state of EWRM part II – The hijacking of EWRM
Project management’s essential role in development aid
I wrote this article a couple of weeks ago for BTC's blog. It deals with the essential role project management, especially the PRINCE2 methodology, will play in the future development of BTC. I hope you enjoy!
The Leitch encounter
There has been one writer/blogger/consultant active in the risk management space I've been following and reading for years. His name is Matthew Leitch. You can find more information about him on his Linked-In page. Early risk management research I remember the early days of risk management, before COSO ERM even existed. In the late 1990's … Continue reading The Leitch encounter
About the new color scheme
I adapted the color scheme of the blog and the entire exploring the black box website. For those unfamiliar with this scheme, it comes courtesy of an amazing designer named Ethan Schoonover. His solarized scheme, of which I am using the light version, is beautiful. In addition, it makes sense in quite a few dimensions. … Continue reading About the new color scheme
Site design changes
A quick design change I had been looking for an even more sober design than "Black Box" had to date for a long time. I'm terrible at CSS, so I'm entirely dependent on the goodwill of the good people of SquareSpace. So when they launched the new Marquee template, I jumped at the opportunity to … Continue reading Site design changes
A letter to both of my children
This is a quick break from my "Workflow" book review schedule. I seldom put something as intensely personal out there, on the internet. Actually, I do believe this is the very first time. This is an exception, but I wanted to share this because I have the feeling that within the community of internet nomads … Continue reading A letter to both of my children
“Workflow” reviewed part III – Invisibility & trusted returns
A quick aside: About my review As you may have noticed by now, I'm not really reviewing Kourosh Dini's most recent book "Workflow: Beyond Productivity" in a traditional manner. As a book, it appears to have an epic objective, which is to provide a deep background to our thinking about productivity and more. It tries … Continue reading “Workflow” reviewed part III – Invisibility & trusted returns
Exploring The Black Box 