Archive for category Puzzles and rumors
Focus on hating overhead
Posted by nynke in Complaints with recommendations, Puzzles and rumors on August 28th, 2009
The Hate
Lots of people have told me how they hate meetings, interruptions and administrative overhead at work. And on the internet you don’t really have to search long to find excellent blog articles like meetings and why I hate them. Not only the time and energy spent in meetings that do not seem to produce [...]
Key patterns for making your business fail
Posted by nynke in Complaints with recommendations, Puzzles and rumors on August 25th, 2009
This is a growing list of patterns to learn from for unfolding business wings:
Put profit over value. In the ever faster running war-work-western-culture-machine, your customers value their (recreation) time the most. You can use this to gain profit. For example, if your complaints department only opens in one location, and only between 10 and 11 [...]
How to make the worst entrance ever!
Posted by nynke in Complaints with recommendations, Puzzles and rumors on August 19th, 2009
Your entrance makes a statement. In this case I am aiming for some experimentation with the five controlled folly principles.
Wear an outfit that makes you feel uncomfortable. As I personally don’t care too much about clothes, I needed a trick here. The best way I have found is to wear clothes that are totally inappropriate [...]
The five principles of controlled folly
Posted by nynke in Puzzles and rumors on August 15th, 2009
Arrr, so ye be wantin’ t’ go to sea. Then ye best be learnin’ t’
1. Mask yer captainliness: Ignore an event or a key, then freeze bein’ absolutely surprised when its effects upset yer life, then blame th’ energy.
2. Do nay confore: Expect energy, wait fer ‘t, surrender yersef t’ ‘t, then keel haul others, [...]
New book on Satir
Posted by nynke in Puzzles and rumors on July 1st, 2009
Linda Leviton is 8 chapters into her new book on Satir!


