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Dec 19, 2011
Data uit Team Coaching International laten zien dat minder dan 10% van de meer dan 200 bevraagde teams zichzelf als high performing beschouwt. Dat is veel te weinig!
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Dec 19, 2011
Laatst liep ik op het metrostation Hoogvliet. Een man, een buitenlandse man, is het perron aan het schoonmaken. Nadat hij het vuil uit en vooral naast de vuilnisbakken had opgeruimd haalt hij een doekje uit zijn emmer en gaat de vuilnisbak aan de buitenkant grondig poetsen. Met een plamuurmes haalt hij de kauwgom allemaal van de bak af. En poetst daarna de hele bak nogmaals goed schoon.
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Jun 7, 2011
Op 1 juni organiseerde de Baak Driebergen i.s.m. De Boer & Ritsema van Eck DBR, een workshop Spiral Dynamics in de Praktijk. Meer dan 60 mensen namen deel.
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Inside the Box
Creativity is not about taking chances, it is about ascertaining success.
Micael Dahlén is Professor of Business Administration & Marketing Strategy aan de Sytockholm School of Economics. In 2008 publiceerde Uitgeverij Wiley zijn boek Creativity Unlimited, Thinking Inside the Box for Business Innovation. Het boek gebruikt de metafoor van Inside the Box.Uit een interview met Micael Dahlén met Vern Burkhardt van de website IdeaConnection.
VB: You have been accepted by many as a good way to be creative. You recommend instead that we "think inside the box" and "shake the box." If we focus on "thinking out of the box" will it reduce our achievement of creative results?
Micael Dahlén: To tell someone to think out of the box is like giving them a blank sheet of paper and saying, "Here, create something!" Ever experienced writer's block? That's what happens. Creative work is then at risk of being splintered and unproductive – the uncertainty can be paralyzing.
If you're venturing into totally unfamiliar territory, how do you know if what's in front of you is useful? It's like monkeys buying stock. Popular experiments have shown that they can pick stock just as well as any Wall Street broker, but obviously monkeys aren't able to make business out of their stock picks – though some would probably say monkeys have run Wall Street lately.
VB: What does it mean to "think inside the box," and why is it what creativity is all about?
Micael Dahlén: Thinking inside the box means not sitting down with a blank sheet of paper. It means having a paper that is filled with information that you rearrange and find new ways of using. It's finding new ways that you, unlike in the case of "monkeying around," are able to see the real value of.
Creative people are able to produce new solutions because they are clear about the limitations they are working within. The same applies to organizations – it can act as a metaphor for setting the boundaries of creative work. "
Klik hier voor het hele interview.