The danger of remote work: Living in your bubble

One common complaint about remote working or working from home is that people miss the social interactions, and innovation will decrease because of a lack of serendipitous chats at the coffee corner or in hallways. How much truth is there in those statements, and where should we lay the blame?

Creating and measuring value in a community of practice

1. A community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people with a shared interest in a topic. 2. A Community of Practice are a place for learning and personal development 3. CoP create value in two ways: Story-telling and a shared sense of identity

Is your community a small world?

Every community should be like a small world: a number of subgroups connected with each other through bridge builders Every community has its own interaction patterns (structure) With the right data, you can calculate if your community is a small world.

Forgetting people

Over time, - you more quickly forget those people who are different. - you build up faster new relationships with those who are different. - you quickly forget about your old work colleagues after you changed your job. you forget about those who are far away - geographically and emotionally.

What power do you have?

We are part of our environment, a network of people shaping our daily lives. In this network you have a position. This position impacts what your success, what you can access, who you talk to.

On social support networks

Three studies on features of social support, and their link to wellbeing and turnover

Good leaders are available and humble

Humble leaders' most significant impact is not that they stimulate friendships but that they advert the creation of negative relationships. It's not that team members like each other more; it's that team members dislike each other less.

Bursty interaction is better for performance

The foundational argument is that teams with higher collective intelligence, perform better. Collective intelligence is a form of team intelligence.

What I learned from (my) MSLOC capstone students

Leaders role in training, and leaders & culture impact on innovation

Emotional intelligence as the basis for resilience?

Leaders need to have emotional intelligence. They are working with people and relying on people to take visions and ideas and making them concrete. It is not a leader's role to draw a map and decide the plan of action.