An interesting technique from the Management 3.0 book “Managing for happiness” is the moving motivators exercise. What are the benefits of this exercise? It raises self-awareness about what motivates you, say what makes you get up in the morning. You can figure out what is important to your colleagues and support them in those areas.…
What is Kudo? Kudo is Greek for fame or honor. The idea behind Kudo Cards is to say “Thank You” in a meaningful way. By taking the time to specify and write down what you are actually grateful for. Variations As an alternative to just give a card to a co-worker, you can enhance the…
My Experiments so far Kudo Cards I gave Kudo Cards to my colleague Michi M. for preparing a nice presentation my colleague Bastian B. for driving an extra tour my colleague Jannik for voluntarily organizing a team event our HR department for introducing a new tool for our application process my CEO for giving me…
After trying a couple of times to get into a Management 3.0 training I finally had the chance to participate in a two day course in Nuremberg. Location The training was hosted at Ancud IT in downtown Nuremberg. The quiet working environment was awesome, the catering for the coffee breaks incredibly good. Kudo cards to…
As this year is coming slowly to an end, I like to use this Sunday to experiment with a little personal Retrospective. We already did two good retros at work so I decided to do one for myself. Set the stage As a method for setting the stage I use Check In-Questions What do I…
What can You expect from a day when you are awake at 4am after just 5 hours of sleep still dealing with headache and a cold? Actually a lot 🙂 Thanks to my wife I attended -against all odds- the Atlassian Roadshow “Agile Evolution in Companies” in Nuremberg, on November 14th 2017
Updateception! I registered for the event “The Mobility Quotient” which features Steve Wozniak and Jimmy Wales as keynote speaker! It will take place on September 7th/8th in Ingolstadt. I am stoked! I started to learn knockout.js therefor I will drop MeteorJS from my list. Instead of dealing with npm, I will try out yarn for a…
Update of the Update: The hot air balloon drive was canceled once again 🙁 I’m going to visit the Management 3.0 foundation workshop I can make another update to my 2017 Roadmap: [x] I did the test drive with the Tesla P100D! [x] Spontaneously I’ve visited devcamp17 [x] I did a couple of katas in…
In New Year’s Resolutions & Technology Learning Roadmap 2017 I listed all my tech and non-tech objectives for 2017. Here is a quick update: After I bought my new Mac Book I asked myself: “Why haven’t I tried to develop an iOS app before?” Well, I think it had something to do with Objective-C which…
Care about your money because no one else will do! Some people like bankers or insurance brokers claim to care about your money. What they really care about is how they can make as much as possible of your money their money. When I started working at my first job I made the mistake to…