1 December
2011
Zappos has been an inspiration on how to organize and get the work done without doubt. This is a cool peek into their CULT-ure. Enjoy!
19 September
2011
It has been just over twenty years after the communist dictatorships all over Central and Eastern Europe collapsed. Since then the society as a whole has achieved previously unprecedented levels of liberties. For some reason the liberation never really entered the corporate world. An average business today still runs on the same principles like the [...]
23 August
2011
It is often like a slap into my face to observe my two little kids do what I do. Just look at Valerie (see the photo below). As I find myself staring at a computer screen a lot, for her a computer has been a magnet. If I ask what she does, she says: “I [...]
14 July
2011
We are all born into what I would call a “world of why”. Children aged 3-6 can ask this question reportedly up 400 times a day. If you’ve got them close by, listen to them. “Why?” is a great question! It may be the most important question in life. It enables one to plumb the [...]
10 June
2011
John Gottman mentions quite an interesting study in one his books And Baby Makes Three. Gottman’s research work is based, to a large extent, on looking into and understanding the differences between men and women. Therefore, the aim of this particular study was to determine whether any differences between both sexes can be actually observed [...]
Coming from the Czech republic, ex-authoritarian society, the concept of freedom is still misunderstood by many. It feels like back in 1989 we were released from a gigantic jail house. Living in a command and control society we had no need nor chance to learn the concept of responsibility and thus freedom. Twenty years later, [...]
It has been a while since I started speaking and writing about freedom at work back home in Central Europe. And doing that it would have been impossible not to bump into Traci Fenton of Worldblu whith whom we seem to share the passion. Last week I spent two great days listening to countless examples [...]
22 May
2011
God knows where it all started!? Perhaps Maverick! and Semco opened the door of freedom at work for me. Then a friend of mine sent me a link to a youtube video about some weird company that pays its people to leave. That was actually my first encounter with Zappos. I loved it! About a [...]
I’ve just popped over to New York and I’m now sitting in the Strand Bookstore on corner of 12th and Broadway. I’ve been rummaging through some fascinating books for several hours. I happened to come across several books to which I owe my current outlook on life. So it occurred to me to give myself [...]
21 April
2011
It has been a little over twenty years we have lived in a so called “free society” here in the Czech republic. The other day I was explaining to my friends visiting from Australia what it meant to get all this freedom after more than forty years of communism.
