Models & Paradigms Blog

Let’s face it: ‘productivity’ is a boring word.

I’m also wondering if it is even the ‘right’ word today.

You mostly hear about it as ‘personal productivity’, which tends to be about time management. You might also see in government reports about ‘Productivity Trends’, where one thing, e.g. output,...

We expend a lot of energy trying to figure out how to help people to change their minds. It seems so difficult.

Let’s look at the ‘mountain’ from the other side. How is it that some changes happen so easily, with just about everybody?

Think about Smartphones. In only a decade from the first iPhone...

Do you worry that the world needs some big changes, fast (like action on global warming)? It seems to be a big challenge to get everyone to move overnight.

When you think about it, there really are some changes that affect everyone that happen really fast, overnight even.  Here’s an example.

On Fe...

There’s something ‘pushing boulders uphill’ about ‘change management’.

We want things to change, but people resist change, they say.

So we bring in change managers to help them. What are they ‘managing’ exactly?

Explaining? Persuading? Providing emotional support? Finding a few who like the new i...