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Mastering Collaboration: Turning Pain into Productivity

I recently read Gretchen Anderson’s book, “Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive,” which offers invaluable insights into effective teamwork. Let’s have a look at the key takeaways from Anderson’s guide and explore how they can transform your collaborative efforts. A boat does not go forward if each one is rowing their own way. Swahili Proverb Deploying a Team for Difficult Problems … Continue reading Mastering Collaboration: Turning Pain into Productivity

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Do You Know the Pareto’s Principle?

Towards the end of the 19th century, a group of economists from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland studied the social inequalities in Europe. By analysing the tax data of several European countries, they found out that in each of them about 20% of the population owned 80% of the wealth. Today is even worse, but this is another story. This discovery was a real … Continue reading Do You Know the Pareto’s Principle?

Daydreaming: Helpful or Hurtful?

Have you ever wonder if letting your mind free to whatever it wants it is helpful or not? Is there a line between helpful and hurtful? Studies show some interesting results. It seems that our daydreaming process interferes with our goals, but not how you’d expect. The daydreaming process has multiple aspects and influences different parts of our life, including the way we perform in … Continue reading Daydreaming: Helpful or Hurtful?

The relationship with your problems

   Problems are everywhere and they are never-ending. And still… we try to dodge them as the devil dodges holy water. We somehow have the idea that being happy and fulfilled means we have no problems. I believe this is wrong. Being happy has nothing to do with the amount of problems we have, but our mind has a habit in relating the two and … Continue reading The relationship with your problems

Happiness Is a Constant Work-In-Progress.

The one constant we all have in our life, are our problems. We all have many different problems we have to face day in and day out… Like solving your health problems, finding a job, getting the car fixed, meeting the deadline for a report, blah blah blah. The list of problems we have are endless, and as you probably already noticed, never really come … Continue reading Happiness Is a Constant Work-In-Progress.