These are unusual times. That is why we decided to do something unusual too. We are offering all Teamily functionalities for free. This means anyone can make a snapshot using our software and see the strengths and weaknesses of their teams. Back in 2014 Maarten and I started Teamily with…

How to create Quantum Ventures that navigate towards success through “the middle way”. — *DISCLAIMER: This is probably the most abstract post I have ever written. It’s written with the intention to be thought provoking. …

A simple tool to help teams define themselves — So in every team training or coaching session I will at some point come to what I coined as The Team Journey. I found it to be a powerful, simple and yet complex puzzle piece to solve in any team formation phase. It is simple as it requires the team…

A Framework for the classification of innovation teams — In my recent article “Don’t f*ck up your innovation teams” I already started mapping teams to the Three Horizons Framework. Based on the positive reactions on that article I decided to share a bit more about my thinking about team differences. The last decade we have introduced many new…

Just provide the perfect stage for them to shine. — Different type of innovation efforts really need different type of teams. Getting this wrong devastes your innovation efforts. In this article I will share how to map different type of innovation teams to the right efforts by using a model that is increasingly used within corporations; The Three Horizons Framework…

Systemic Alignment for Teams and the importance of rituals to drive team performance, commitent and creative resourcefulness — Last years my work has really concentrated on the practice of providing clarity to especially entrepreneurial and innovative teams on things like their mission, their values, their roles, their (relative) position to their surroundings and their journey. It’s the work I absolutely love to do. I love to encounter new…

It’s hard but not impossible — One of the key reasons many projects fail is that there is no commitment from the stakeholders and team members. If no commitment is the issue in your project, you probably are pushing “solutions”. You probably are trying to convince people to work on your great idea or your great…

Transformation is hard. We barely figured out the finite game of growth and surely we are confronted with the infinite game of transformation. A never ending circle. A circle we are more and more confronted with as our volatile world is pushing us back up into our minds making us…

Media, as everything else, is changing. Lately with the uprising of Augmented Reality many people asked me what my current view is on this topic. That inspired me to write this post. It challenged me to get my wild thoughts on paper and somehow articulate what I see happening. So…