3 concrete tips:Express ideas as explanationsSay how an action will transform a situation or capability, and why that actionNOT : subjective opinion about importance (loose actions / goals)Avoid positive argumentsArguments

Episode 154: What is the fastest way to grow knowledge ?

25 days ago 10m 22s

“The fastest way to grow knowledge is to set up a "competition" between *multiple* ideas, all vying to solve the *same* problem”

Episode 153: “Our strategy needs to be clear so we can all be on the same page “ (and why that’s wrong)

27 days ago 7m 28s

Mistaken for multiple reasons:- You cannot be 100% clear about ideas- It's coercive- It's good that we have conflicts of ideas: only those lead to improvement of ideas

Episode 152: We need to make sales more fun again ! (but we’re doing the opposite)

28 days ago 17m 53s

Sales is not easy, and all things not easy can be made fun. More on that laterWhat is not fun about sales nowInherently disappointing : getting so many no’s for 1 yes’We make it dull or frustrating in two waysby the typical KPI mana

Episode 151: How does knowledge grow ?

Apr 8th, 2024 24m 34s

Ideas/ knowledge can only change in 3 ways:Preventing them from changing: you secure them from changing by justifying their truth, by adding arguments to them that say why they are true, e.g. appeal to authority arguments.Subjectively addi

Episode 150: It is not people who solve problems, it’s ideas that solve problems

Dec 8th, 2023 6m 21s

About the (intuitive) misconception: it’s people who solve problems, not really ideas

Episode 149 : The common flaw in both “hard” and “soft” management methods

Dec 4th, 2023 16m 33s

"Hard" management methods: Focused on measurements (deviation between a target/ forecast and actuals), setting up authority (hierarchy, roles & responsibilities), predictions (visions, targets, goals, …), providing "clarity", ..."Soft" manage

Episode 148 : There is something fishy about the “blue” color type in the Insights Discovery people assessment

Nov 4th, 2023 5m 57s

Sharing a quibble I have with the "blue" people characteristic in the Insights Disovery people assessment method.

Episode 147 : The 2 very different types of answers to “why?” questions

Nov 4th, 2023 5m 8s

The same question "why?" about some phenomenon in reality can have 2 very different types of answers: (i) the proposal of a causal explanation and (ii) the justification of the truth of the phenomenon

Episode 146 : Forget “result-driven/ action-driven”, try to become “explanation-driven”

Jun 19th, 2023 10m 54s

An explanation is a consistent mental model of a transformation/ task/ change, and it contains:The result or goal you want to achieveThe actions required to achieve that goalThe arguments why (why that particular goal (and not some othe

Episode 145 : Why is epistemology relevant and important ?

Jun 8th, 2023 9m 1s

Epistemology is relevant when explaining *any* human activity, as it is a better/ deeper explanation than explanations at the level of behaviours (actions) or personality (assessments of persons as a whole)

Episode 144 : on the use of KPIs

Apr 19th, 2023 12m 36s

Key aspects discussed related to how companies typically use KPIsStart from the KPI and not from the problem and solution (for which the KPI was supposed to be an indicator)Corrective actions are parochial and without causal powerCor

Episode 143: There is no problem solving method (and that is a good thing !)

Mar 31st, 2023 8m 20s

There are no "problem solving methods".Reason being that if there were such a method, we would be able to automatically crank out solutions by simply following it.The same goes for the "scientific method" (science is also problem solving). Fo

Episode 142: The austrian economics argument for why money creation cannot increase wealth in society

Mar 17th, 2023 14m 28s

Does money printing create wealth ? Austrian economics says no and with a very simple but powerful logical argument.

Episode 141: On David Deutsch’ “Knowledge is information with causal power”

Mar 16th, 2023 11m 20s

Some thoughts on David Deutsch” definition of knowledge as ‘information with causal power”Also some ideas on how to use this in organisations

Episode 140: The problem with problem solving

Mar 15th, 2023 12m 36s

It is not contested that managers rely on their teams to get problems solved.However, in practise this turns out less easy than stated here. I go into some of the reasons why it is not trivial and concrete ways for improving this.

Episode 139 - The austrian business cycle theory

Feb 3rd, 2023 30m 34s

What is a business cycle ? The role of money. The unhampered economy. The hampered economy

Episode 138 - In the long run, the strength of an organisation is only dependent on the quality of error-correction inside

Jan 26th, 2023 9m 7s

Unpacking the slogan ...

Episode 137 - A critique of the Lencioni pyramid in teamwork

Jan 4th, 2023 6m 47s

The natural state of any relationship is that fact that ideas differ. That is not “a shame” … or a proof that there is distrust. It is just the natural starting position. If it were a proof of distrust, then the first step would indeed have to

Episode 136 - A criticism of and alternative to the DMAIC method in continuous improvement

Dec 20th, 2022 14m 57s

DMAIC:Define the problem (Set the goal, ...)Measure the problem (AS IS, ...)Analyse (Root cause analysis, ...)Implement (Find solutions test and implement)Control (Monitor and sustain improvements, ...)Popper’s method:Proble