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Rapid Idea Improvement
By Bart VanderhaegenBusiness
Rapid Idea Improvement episodes
- 11 min
- Episode 27: Your project plan and report should be an “explanation”
Explanations are key in project management.
They state why and how a goal will be reached (and e.g. why not in another way)
Also, people can improve and align on explanations (not on isolated statements in a plan or report that show no direct link with the explanation for succes)
Many projects only contain isolated statements (of actions/ TO DOs/ Status/ ...) with explanatory power: without explaining why those things will lead to result (goal achievement) ... and why not other things.
13 min - Episode 26: The worst quote in management “Keep it simple, (stupid)”About a very popular yet dreadful expression: “KISS: Keep it Simple Stupid”At least, it’s a non statement. And it’s misleading.10 min
- Episode 25: The fallacy of “Let’s all work in the same way”
Discussion on my Linkedin slide: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6683960594212671488/
10 min - Episode 24: The power of idea evolution - how Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity came aboutWhat can we learn from Einstein’s theory of general relativity, in terms of (i) the power of the evolution of an ideaand (ii) The importance of error correction19 min
- Episode 23: Let’s go for a broader definition of “an idea”
Episode about “what is an idea” … or “what is a relevant definition for an idea”.
Classical: an idea is a short, action focused statement. E.g. “let’s go to the gym” … or “let’s make a plan first”.
Ideas should not be isolated single statements. They are more. They should be evolving into broader and broader accounts of “how you want to solve a problem”.
Why?
- By making them short and isolated you miss the beauty and the power of an idea
- Because ideas are important, they change the world. But only if they are allowed to evolve into an explanation. An explanation of why and how a problem will be solved.
An explanation grows in a particular way: the good parts are kept, the bad parts are replaced. But the entire thing is and should still be the idea. Or the explanation if you want.
It’s wrong to say: we need 1 idea and then the execution is just brainless automated follow-up. In and during execution you need new ideas and improve them as well … all of this is also part of the entire idea to solve the problem.
12 min - By making them short and isolated you miss the beauty and the power of an idea
- Episode 22: Emergence (once again)
Episode on this slide I posted on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6680377988816617472/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A6680149857430196224%2C6680377879110410240)
Emergence: all phenomena that have complex causality in the way they “appear”
Examples of emergent phenomena in organisations:
- A good idea that gets implemented with succes
- Cooperation between people
- Leadership behaviour of managers
- …
The issue: you cannot control for emergence to happen
But what can you do ? … That’s what this episode is about.
16 min - A good idea that gets implemented with succes
- Episode 21: The difference between good versus bad cultures in companies
Episode about this slide I posted on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6680084290505592832/
Dealing with the difference between good and bad cultures in organisations, and especially with how good or bad cultures “grow”/ “get created” … (i.e. the drivers)
11 min - Episode 20: The dogma of “governance” in organisations … and the thing that is much more important than governance
Governance = answers to the “who should rule/ decide/ do … about what?” question
Why do we consider it as a dogma? It has the potential to solve everything
Why can it never be “the” solution to all problems?
What is missing therefore ?
20 min - Episode 19: Criticism should be about content, not persons … but what kind of content criticism should we give?
We all know that criticism doesn’t work when it’s about people.
We know it should be about content, content of people’s ideas.
But then ? How should we provide criticism (or feedback) to content ?
10 min
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A podcast about the theory of knowledge applied to all fields that interest me (management, economics, physics, ...). My attempt at understanding & applying the ideas of Karl Popper (and his…
epistemology "Critical Rationalism") and David Deutsch (author of "The fabric of reality" and "The beginning of infinity").