The Strategic Road Trip: Strategy, MBO, OKRs, and Monitoring KPIs Dr. Abdulrahman Aljamouss MBOs, KPIs, and OKRs are key components in how a company achieves its goals and they each represent a different way to achieve those company goals. MBO stands for Management By Objectives; KPIs stand for Ke...
What the Longest Harvard Study on Happiness Reveals About Living a Good Life An 85-year Harvard study, considered one of the longest-running studies on happiness, has found a strong association between happiness and close relationships like spouses, family, friends and social circles. What Happe...
Quantum leadership Quantum leadership is a new management vision that integrates the most effective traditional leadership practices with recent discoveries in quantum physics and neuroscience. A quantum leader is a person with awareness of being a 'co-creator' of every moment of reality and, as s...
Parkinson’s Law: How to overcome it to increase productivity Dr.Abdulrahman ALJAMOUSS What is Parkinson's Law? Parkinson’s Law is the idea that your work will expand to fill the time allotted for its completion. This law can come into play when juggling work deadlines or managing projects. Th...
The Art of War Summary Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, strategist, and writer, born in 544 BC. Smart and quick-witted, Tzu established a remarkable philosophy of military strategy that he compiled together in The Art of War. Often focusing on tactics beyond the bloodshed of physical battle, The Art...
The Butterfly Effect The term "butterfly effect" was coined in the 1960s by Edward Lorenz, a meteorology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was studying weather patterns. He devised a model demonstrating that if you compare two starting points indicating current weather tha...
The DIKW Pyramid (Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom) The DIKW Pyramid represents the relationships between data, information, knowledge and wisdom. Each building block is a step towards a higher level - first comes data, then is information, next is knowledge and finally comes wisdom. Each ste...
Claes Janssen during 1964-75 created the ‘Four Rooms of Change’, (often erroneously known as the ‘Change House’); whilst it is used as a psychological model it also is a valuable tool to help people understand and move through elements of change. Each of the four rooms represents different ‘state...
Stresslaxing Stresslaxing is a relatively new term, but in recent times, more people are experiencing it than ever before. Stresslaxing: Being so stressed that relaxing makes you more stressed because you’re not working on what’s making you stressed. Even though stresslaxation is a new term, it de...
What is hockey stick growth? Hockey stick growth is a pattern in a line chart that shows sudden and extremely rapid growth after a long period of linear growth. The line connecting the data points resembles the shape of a hockey stick. The term is often used to describe what happens when a startup...