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Rapid Idea Improvement — 174 episodes
Episode 174: 7 reasons why money printing is bad
Episode 173: Why I never fill out customer satisfaction surveys
Commercial and central banking - What I learned from Bob Murphy
Episode 172: Debating socialism versus capitalism
Episode 171: Why the Chicago School of economics can not conclude that central banking is bad
Episode 170: The concept of a malinvestment in the Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Episode 169: Is decarbonisation an effective strategy?
Episode 168: Why it is irrational to not even consider looking into Austrian Economics
Episode 167: Monotony, politics or problem solving: 3 states of experiencing work
Episode 166: On climate: philosophy of climate science, climate science and morality
Episode 165: The myth of the Keynesian multiplier
Episode 164: Philosophy of science : Karl Popper’s Critical Rationalism
Episode 163: SSIA a problem solving based sales approach
Episode 162: selling is a creative, problem solving process
Episode 161: Philosophy of science : empiricism
Episode 160: Philosophy of science : induction and the problem of induction
Episode 159: Philosophy of science : instrumentalism (and why it is bad)
Episode 158: Why knowing how the customer thinks is not enough
Episode 157: The only problem a salesperson has to solve
Episode 156: Epistemology, the most important subject nobody is talking about
Episode 155: How to let ideas "compete" ?
Episode 154: What is the fastest way to grow knowledge ?
Episode 153: “Our strategy needs to be clear so we can all be on the same page “ (and why that’s wrong)
Episode 152: We need to make sales more fun again ! (but we’re doing the opposite)
Episode 151: How does knowledge grow ?
Episode 150: It is not people who solve problems, it’s ideas that solve problems
Episode 149 : The common flaw in both “hard” and “soft” management methods
Episode 148 : There is something fishy about the “blue” color type in the Insights Discovery people assessment
Episode 147 : The 2 very different types of answers to “why?” questions
Episode 146 : Forget “result-driven/ action-driven”, try to become “explanation-driven”
Episode 145 : Why is epistemology relevant and important ?
Episode 144 : on the use of KPIs
Episode 143: There is no problem solving method (and that is a good thing !)
Episode 142: The austrian economics argument for why money creation cannot increase wealth in society
Episode 141: On David Deutsch’ “Knowledge is information with causal power”
Episode 140: The problem with problem solving
Episode 139 - The austrian business cycle theory
Episode 138 - In the long run, the strength of an organisation is only dependent on the quality of error-correction inside
Episode 137 - A critique of the Lencioni pyramid in teamwork
Episode 136 - A criticism of and alternative to the DMAIC method in continuous improvement
Episode 135 - Problem solving methods: the crucial ingredient they don’t mention
Episode 134 - Two radically different approaches to problem solving
Episode 133 - The problem with ESG as a vehicle for moral progress in companies
Episode 132 - How I got into Austrian Economics
Episode 131 - A new brainstorming format and procedure
Episode 130 - Management, just like science, is "explanation based", and not "evidence based"
Episode 129 - Why all plans are wrong and why that is a positive thing
Episode 128 - Two opposite conceptions about what science is: the inductive method versus Karl Popper's explanation
Episode 127 - Why do we like personality tests so much ?
Episode 126 - The role of goals and goal setting in a companies
Episode 125: Are you an optimist or a pessimist ?
Episode 124 - Two basic problems with KPI’s
Episode 123 - People can only act upon their own ideas
Episode 122 - There are no departments/ units/ divisions in companies, there are only ideas and conflicts of ideas
Episode 121 - What exactly are you hiring when you are hiring people?
Episode 120 - “One way of working” programs in organisations
Episode 119 - The difference between prediction and explanation in business
Episode 118 - The difference between “moralising” and solving a moral problem
Episode 117 - Appearing on the Economics for Business podcast - Mises institute
Episode 116 - Some thoughts on Change Management
Episode 115: Name change of the podcast
Episode 114 - The difference between fallibility and failing
Episode 113 - You cannot justify a decision by appeal to authority
Episode 112 - The kinds of questions your organisation structure does not answer
Episode 111 - 100 management gurus against 2 philosophers
Episode 110 - The key question a CEO should lie awake about at night
Episode 109 - Why personality tests (MBTI, Insights Discovery, …) are a denial of human creativity
Episode 108 - IN DUTCH - 1 van de minder slechte argumenten van anti-vaxxers (over testen met vaccins)
Episode 107 - One of the less dramatic arguments of anti-vaxxers (on vaccine testing)
Episode 106 - Why it is a fallacy to think you need to be “hard” when you coach top performers
Episode 105 - Two key questions for sales people
Episode 104 - Why we CAN (try to) understand quantum mechanics
Episode 103- The 3 ways of using “Why?”
Episode 102 - The fallacy of “Tell me how you are paid and I will tell you how you will behave”
Episode 101 - Why personality tests such as MBTI and Insights discovery are wrong, and why that is actually a good thing
Episode 100 - Bruce Nielson on the 4 strands of "The Fabric of Reality" (book by David Deutsch)
Episode 99 - A proposal to address the central versus local polarisation in organisations
Episode 98 - Why the hard sciences are not exact and why the social sciences are (evidently) no different
Episode 97 - The relationship between empathy and the kind of epistemology you use
Episode 96 - About the philosophy of realism and the pinnacle of all realism claims: the Church-Turing-Deutsch thesis
Episode 95 - Some thoughts about “Big data” (and why it’s a mistake to worship it)
Episode 94 - 9 points that can improve the “thinking” in organisations
Episode 93 - How to improve ideas while preserving the conviction of those who hold them ?
Episode 92 - Management seems to be the science of approximations
Episode 91 - What is the role of ideas in sales management methods ?
Episode 90 - We should do less of coaching and training and more of something else
Episode 89 - My disagreement with Simon Sinek’s “Take the risk of optimism”
Episode 88 - The 2 fundamentally different ways of arguing/ dialoguing with each other
Episode 87 - How do ideas spread in organisations ?
Episode 86 - On politics and election systems: First Past The Post (FPTP) or Proportional Representation ?
Episode 85 - Popper’s concept of what a problem is
Episode 84 - Why consultants should not bring their own ideas into companies
Episode 83 - 4 critiques to the idea of “goal setting” in companies
Episode 81 - Why is there so much focus on “improving ideas” in the Pactify approach ?
Episode 80 - When does management consulting work ? And when does it not work ?
Episode 79- Do self-help books and training work or not ? And why ?
Episode 78 - A new take on how to distinguish a good culture from a bad one in organisations
Episode 77 - Karl Popper’s “restrictions” to thinking/ reasoning and why they are so powerful
Episode 76 - The 2 fundamentally different ways to cooperate
Episode 75 - A misconception about communication : when you have communicated, you’re not “done” … you merely just started.
Episode 74 - Is there a method to management?
Episode 73 - Het criterium van Karl Popper voor goede politieke systemen … toegepast op goede management systemen
Episode 72 - Applying Karl Popper’s criterion in politics … to management
Episode 71 - The 3 problems with problem solving in organisations
Episode 70 - The experience of FLOW is Popperian epistemology on a roll !
Episode 69 - The link between problem solving and cooperation in a team/ unit/ organisation
Episode 68 - Comparing philosophies: critical rationalism vs empiricism vs pseudoscience
Episode 67 - A modification to the “Peter’s principle” in management
Episode 66 - Waarom je GEEN kuddedier bent als je de wetenschappelijke consensus volgt
Episode 65 - Waarom compromissen niet optimaal werken
Episode 64 - About Sir Karl Popper’s epistemology: critical rationalism
Episode 63 - IN DUTCH - Belgische regeringsformatie, vanuit een ander perspectief
Episode 62 - IN DUTCH - Regels versus ideeën
Episode 61 - IN DUTCH - “Wie moet wat doen?” versus “Welke ideeën zijn er en wel effect hebben ze?”
Episode 60 - IN DUTCH - Emergentie uitgelegd aan de hand van de mierenbrug
Episode 59 - Management is a process of knowledge creation, but how does knowledge creation work?
Episode 58 - Objective management knowledge
Episode 57 - IN DUTCH - Waarom heb je een “idea owner” rol nodig in de Pactify aanpak ?
Episode 56 - What is an “idea owner” in the Pactify approach ?
Episode 55 - IN DUTCH - Het conflict tussen de hoe management methodologieen opgevat zijn en Popperiaans denken
Episode 54 - IN DUTCH - Moeten we nu méér of minder controle uitoefenen in organisaties?
Episode 53: “The holy grail question in management: what to control and what not?”
Episode 52 - A new definition for “cooperation”
Episode 51 - IN DUTCH - Een nieuwe definitie voor samenwerking
Episode 50 - IN DUTCH - Interview Jozef Van Giel, maker van de podcast "Kritisch Denken"
Episode 49 - IN DUTCH - “Wat bedoelen we met het “probleemoplossend vermogen” van een organisatie?”
Episode 48 - IN DUTCH - “Kritiek is het mooiste geschenk dat je een idee kan geven”
Episode 47 - IN DUTCH - “Wat is emergentie en waarom is het belangrijk in management?”
Episode 46 - IN DUTCH - “Voorspelling gebaseerd managen”
Episode 45: Part 12 of the 12 point philosophy: “All is to be learnt in the action”
Episode 44: Part 11 of the 12 point philosophy: “A good solution doesn’t break down classically into its organisational parts”
Episode 43: Part 10 of the 12 point philosophy: “What is real cooperation?”
Episode 42: Part 9 of the 12 point philosophy: “Solving a relevant problem together ties people more closely together than their shared place in the organization”
Episode 41: Part 8 of the 12 point philosophy: “Engagement is primarily driven by being able to solve relevant problems, with enough of your own input in the solution”
Episode 40: Part 7 of the 12 point philosophy: “The solution (explanation) you build is never infallible, can not be justified but only (continuously) error-corrected”
Episode 39: Part 6 of the 12 point philosophy: “A good solution is a hard to vary explanation”
Episode 38: Part 5 of the 12 point philosophy: “Knowledge cannot be poured into people”
Episode 37: Part 4 of the 12 point philosophy: “Knowledge emerges, and that cannot be controlled in advance”
Episode 36: Part 3 of the 12 point philosophy: “The main task of an organisation”
Episode 35: Part 2 of the 12 point philosophy: “Don't solve new problems with old knowledge”
Episode 34: Part 1 of the 12 point philosophy: “start from a question”
Episode 33: Make a long term plan … or solve problems only when they arise?
Episode 32: Why “asking stupid questions” should be part of any meeting
Episode 31: What managers can learn from the philosopher Karl Popper
Episode 30: The danger of always wanting to “decide things together”
Episode 29: The thing that’s wrong with almost all theories of leadership
Episode 28: The value of slogans “you should come out of your comfort zone”
Episode 27: Your project plan and report should be an “explanation”
Episode 26: The worst quote in management “Keep it simple, (stupid)”
Episode 25: The fallacy of “Let’s all work in the same way”
Episode 24: The power of idea evolution - how Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity came about
Episode 23: Let’s go for a broader definition of “an idea”
Episode 22: Emergence (once again)
Episode 21: The difference between good versus bad cultures in companies
Episode 20: The dogma of “governance” in organisations … and the thing that is much more important than governance
Episode 19: Criticism should be about content, not persons … but what kind of content criticism should we give?
Episode 18: The difference between status reporting and “theory reporting” in organisations
Episode 17: Why nothing of what you say can be true … and why that is good news!
Episode 16: “We should …-management” and it’s 2 mistakes
Episode 15: The “bucket theory of knowledge” … and why it’s false
Episode 14: It’s not about the first version of an idea, but about how it evolves ...
Episode 13: Communication and the impossibility to avoid being misunderstood
Episode 12: Why is fallibilism relevant in management?
Episode 11: The reasons why ideas get killed in organisations
Episode 10: The concept of Flow (also from a knowledge creation perspective)
Episode 9: Why is work “problem solving” (and nothing else) ?
Episode 8: Pactify is a system for distributed problem solving, but what does that mean ?
Episode 7: What is emergence ? And why is it relevant for organisations
Episode 6: What software platform to use for your implementation program?
Episode 5: How do we know what we know? And why is that relevant for organisations?
Episode 4: People don't understand things by merely communicating or showing example behaviour
Episode 3: Why criticism leads to real cooperation
Episode 2: Can you increase productivity and engagement simultaneously ?
Introduction to the Pactify podcast