Work

The professionalism that will kill us all.

Or how to find our way back to life after being locked inside.

“The professionalism that requires us to be unmoved by what we meet through the day…

Rules for singing well together

Applying clear principles for collaboration to group improvisation

Don’t forget where you’re going

One rule for working well with other people

When people talk about working together, they often start by talking about things like organisations and collaboration. What is an organisation? What is collaboration? Where…

Initiative Mapping: The Short Version

Whenever you are working with someone else, there are two things — above all — that you need to be clear about:

1. Who is helping who?
2. What is the helper helping with?

Clear Definitions #1: Authority

Where does authority come from? 
When you hear two people talk and one speaks with authority and one doesn’t, what’s the difference?

There’s a kind of pseudo-authority, which consists of talking loudly. And that works for…

Taking the initiative

A decade of working independently means I’m very familiar with those times where suddenly there’s no work, no leads, no clear direction, no motivation — all at once. And very familiar with that panicked feeling that I really should be doing something productive towards bringing in work and…

To Help One Another

The Fundamentals of Working Together Creatively

When people work together, there are only two roles available: the helped and the helper. And, if you want to work together well, the first and most important thing to establish is: who is…

The Fundamentals of Creative Work

In order to look at the fundamentals of creative work, we have to check what work is and how it works: we have to understand it as a creative process.

And to understand work as a creative process, we have to start from looking at the nature of…