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Read 1 day ago and current, but nothing has been published for 17 months.
Think back to all the teams and organizations you were part of — both now and in the past. When did collaboration go well, and were you performing at your best? And when, let’s say… could it have been better?
B’Saha! The tea was served in traditional Moroccan style: small glasses, poured from up high with a lot of sugar. And cookies. Lots of cookies.
Clammy hands and sweaty foreheads is what I see around me.
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Motivating people is an important task for leaders, and many struggle with it. That's because we do it in an outdated way. Read here how to motivate others the right way.
We are adults who make decisions based on rationality, rather than emotions. Feelings only make work more difficult and less efficient. Therefore it’s only normal that we set our emotions aside when working. Oh, how we are fooling ourselves.
First a small update on the book:
We often think that the human side of work distracts us from the real work.
After sitting in the classroom for a history course on Taylor, Ford, and Weber, who invented our way of working, I concluded by saying they collectively took humanity out of work.
We are coming to the end of our brief history lesson about the people who, a 150 years ago, figured out how we should work efficiently and effectively.
