After my initial few days of Fairphone 3, here's an update with more hands-on experience. I decided to keep it, despite its shortcomings. Read on to find out why. NFC payments. Hurray! I was able to set up my bank (ASN) with the wireless payment on the Fairphone 3. This is something I was not …
Continue reading "Switching from iPhone to Fairphone: day 4 to 10"
Last Friday my Fairphone 3 arrived. Yay! In this article I've collected my thoughts after using it for three days. I expected a world of hurt when transitioning from my iPhone. In reality the transition went pretty smooth. But it wasn't all perfect. Read on to find out why. I believe our power as consumers …
Continue reading "Switching from iPhone to Fairphone: day 1-3"
How do you make a high performing team from 8 individuals? You start by getting to know each other. But what works well in practice? This is the first in a series of articles. In this series, I'm sharing my experience of building a brand new team of eight unruly 7th graders. The team goal …
Continue reading "What I learned by coaching FLL kids part 1: how to build a fresh team in 6 steps"
This is the third article in a series of teamwork tips & tricks. The first tip was about aligning the things you do with the things you want. In the second article I discussed work-life balance. This article is about looking beyond other people's actions and working with their intent. I once worked in a …
Continue reading "Teamwork tip 3: Escape the road to hell by looking at intentions"
This is the second article in my series about great teamwork. It is about work/life balance. Ever wondered how you can be part of a high performing team without burning out? Read on! Long term and short term team performance There are a lot of things in life that I'd love to do, but don't. …
Continue reading "Teamwork tip 2: balance needs and shoulds"
'Effect' is a book about effective teamwork. The title refers to the strange fact that your conscious actions don't always have the effect you desire on other people. The book is written by ice skater J.O. Koss and psychologist B.M. Ihlen. They wrote down their team coaching insights after winning several olympic gold medals. Their …
Continue reading "8 teamwork insights from an ice skating champion – summary of the book ‘Effect’"
I have seen many decision making methods. Of all of them, the Choosing By Advantages method by Jim Suhr stood out as the most effective and rational. Here's a step by step guide. Choosing by Advantages (CBA) is a decision-making system that acknowledges all decisions are subjective. It guides users however to collect, prioritize and …
In 1999 Tome Demarco en Timothy Lister published their second edition of 'Peopleware'. Their insight is that software development projects fail not because of technology, but because of communication. Yet what managers do is manage technology, not the communication in the team. Why? Technology, stuff, procedures, and such are tangible, orderly and easy to influence. …
