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Systems Intelligence: Getting to Super-Productivity via not “Holding Back”
The MAPP program is a fulltime program – but combines onsite classes with long-distance learning periods. Part of the distance learning comprises a lot of reading (Who would have thought of that…) and...
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Micro-Changes: What´s in a (first) Kiss?
Just a filler for today – but a truly beautiful one. It´s a video that´s just going viral right. What you´ll see: 10 couples that have just met and are asked to kiss. It´s a beautiful thing just in...
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Positive Psychology: Standing on which Giants` Shoulders?
The MAPP program is a fulltime program – but combines onsite classes with long-distance learning periods. Part of the distance learning comprises a lot of reading (Who would have thought of that…) and...
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How a compassionate Protestant Pastor (almost…) restored my Faith in...
I was raised in a Catholic household but resigned from church at the age of 25 – mostly because of an unwillingness to pay the mandatory(!) church tax in Germany. But the truth is: mentally and...
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Barack Obama vs. Gordon Brown: Are you “holding back”? And what if you wouldn´t?
If you´re not here for the very first time, you probably know about Esa Saarinen and his theory about Systems of Holding Back. More precisely, they are defined as “mutually aggregating spirals which...
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Who´s the Boss? A Tale of Cops and Cheerleaders…
Ok, whatever you think…the title is not the tag line for some special interest porn flick. It’s about leadership. Precisely, COP and CHEERleader are acronyms that I stumbled upon yesterday in an...
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Being a better Leader by managing organizational Energy [Video]
A couple of days ago, I wrote a post about Positive Organizational Capital as introduced to the Positive Psychology community by Fred Luthans. Today, I´d like to point you to another concept based on...
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How to get Lucky at a TEDx Conference
After having approval by the TED organization, I´m finally and officially allowed to share with you the TEDx talk I gave in Bergen/Norway on October 4. I talked about the issue of luck – and how we all...
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Being better better – with Systems Intelligence
I’m a big fan of the idea of Systems Intelligence, a concept by Finnish philosopher Esa Saarinen and his collaborators that I’ve explored Systems Intelligence here on Mappalicious. Recently, together...
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Footage from Aalto Systems Forum 2014 feat. Peter Senge and Esa Saarinen
On November 20, 2014, the University of Aalto, Finland hosted a conference by the name of “Being Better in the World of Systems” in order to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Systems Analysis...
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The Paying it Forward Paradox | TEDxUoM
What if the toughest barrier between us and our needs is that we don’t ask for help fulfilling them? Sociologist Wayne Baker offers insight into the concept of generalized reciprocity or “paying it...
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