[Original Post in English, if you prefer] [תורגם מאנגלית - אם נוח לכם באנגלית - אז בבקשה...] עוברים את התהום - בקפיצה גדולה. צריך ״פשוט לקפוץ למים״. הדרך מורכבת - מהרבה צעדים קטנים. את הדרך עוברים ״עקב בצד אגודל״. [בעקבות משוב מאחת המבקרות הנאמנות, יש דוגמה מעשית בסוף...] לא מזמן, נקלעתי לדיון על איך לחולל שינוי, לתמיד. הנושא היה איך מתחילים שינוי (מרזים, מתחילים לעשות כושר, לומדים שפה) - ומתמידים בו. שתי העמדות שהוצגו בדיון היו האם ״צריך פשוט לקפוץ למים״ - או ״עקב בצד אגודל״

Early on in life, I learned two basic lessons from my father: Better be 30 minutes early than 1 minute late (numbers may vary, but you understand the principle) Be nice to people. Say hello and smile - even if you don't know them. He probably had his reasons for developing that method of operation, and overall, as many children do, I guess I accepted this as "If dad says so..." I mentioned the reasoning to "tuning" your behaviour in a previous post, so I won't elaborate on #2

You can not cross the gap without taking a leap of faith. You can not keep going unless you take one step at a time. [Following feedback from one of my best critics, I've added a concrete example at the end.] The other day, we had a discussion about making change. The topic was a how to make a change (lose wait, take up jogging, learn a language) - and make it stay. The two sides of the discussion were basically "take one small step at a time" or "take a leap of faith". After

Make an Impact! Be Replaceable... As holidays come-and-go, we tend to do some soul-searching, trying to realize what we're doing good - and what we could be doing better. We tend to think highly of ourselves. That's fine. To some extent, even natural. We believe we are doing a good job (as an employee, as a manager, as a parent, as a student, as a child, as a spouse - you got the point...) That's ok. We think nothing needs improving. That's wrong. In almost every domain, we c

TL;DR; If you're asked to do something you believe is wrong - speak up. (I'm talking about workplace, but I suspect it can be generalised.) Actively try to Right the Wrong. Either work harder - and learn why it's not Wrong - but actually - it is Right. Or work harder - to explain to your partners why it's Wrong. If both fail, escalate. (There are exceptions, but this is the rule.) Make a Difference. Be Involved. Longer Story (I'm writing about a specific case involving Produc

(Originally posted on Facebook, in Hebrew, on July 19th, 2017. Now, in English, and much more general. Original text at end...) They said it can't be done. That you can't have your cake and eat it too. Well, in the context of societies and/or organizations, I believe you can. Read more... There's a riddle I like. A very simple riddle. But a very insightful one. How do you split piece-of-cake fairly between two people? (Answer below the line, search for ***). Recently (June/Ju

Netflix created an amazing presentation on Workplace Culture. You can find it here. [UPDATE: A version/variation is also available on Netflix' site.] It's 124 slides, viewed over 16 million times (as of the time of this post... probably more by the time you read this). It's very readable (should take you no more than 30-40 minutes - a small investment if you want to learn about great workplace culture), and very understandable. Rumors are that Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook COO -

I remember my surprise, when I first read (possibly it was in one of the Tarzan books I read as a child) that the most dangerous creature on earth is Man, Homo Sapiens. As a member of the human race, I felt personally insulted. When I read justifications to this claim, I felt there may be some point to this claim. Want to read more about it? just google... (or click here). But that is NOT the subject of this post... You see, part of the claims talk about how humans invent wea