Sparks Guide

25/01/2019

Amazing I. LeanIn Switzerland Conference today. Thank you Bratby & team for making this happen!

24/01/2019

Better be careful with those meetings!

Research shows the IQs of many meeting attendees drops as soon as the meeting starts.

18/01/2019

Why listening is not always listening
https://www.lifehack.org/523241/the-biggest-communication-problem-is-that-we-listen-to-reply-not-to-understand
Alexandra Mandoki

Communication between people often fails because we don't listen well enough to fully understand what is being said. We listen to formulate a reply.

17/01/2019

Key theme for 2019 is FOCUS. Also when it comes to collaboration and team work.

Ask yourself if the work is truly interdependent.

16/01/2019

The Day has come: https://tedxzurich.com. "What nobody told me about growing up" Alexandra Mandoki. Let's play TEDxZurich.

EDxZurich is an independently organised event.

16/01/2019

How to mute the inner critic to become more Creative - yes, rituals can help.Alexandra Mandoki

When inspiration is elusive, ritual appears to offer a shortcut to creative flow. 'It makes sense that ritual would be a way to quickly sensitize yourself to that internal freewheeling process,' says Rex Jung, neuropsychologist and brain imaging researcher who studies creativity and intelligence.

16/01/2019

The "how to work together" is more important than the team itself! Trust, trust, trust. Mandoki

They code-named the study Project Aristotle, a tribute to the philosopher's famous quote, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

16/01/2019

All are more than true based on my experience - be aware to be able to avoid or overcome them. Specially true example is Nr 23, Normalcy bias: "The refusal to plan for, or react to, a disaster which has never happened before."
https://www.collectivecampus.com.au/blog/36-cognitive-biases-that-inhibit-innovation with Alexandra Mandoki

In this post I’ve unpacked 36 cognitive biases that can stifle your innovation efforts, how they might apply to the field and a proposed solution or mitigant for each. If you’ve got some alternative mitigants to address these biases, I’d love to hear from you in the comments.

29/09/2018

We are ready to play at the HSG Alumni Homecoming about Artificial Intelligence

17/09/2018

Honoured to be part of this exciting MBA homecoming event!

High touch in times of high tech. Ever tried to think with your hands? Learn how to innovate this way on 29th of September at MBA Homecoming with Sparks Guide founder Alexandra Mandoki.

Sparks Guide: http://sparks.guide/

Homecoming 2018: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-mba-alumni-homecoming-tickets-48056545421

16/05/2018

How unhealthy conflict, rivalry and setting the priorities wrongly effect the team and results:" in low-performing leadership teams, only 62% prioritize well and 53% are seen as being focused on the right issues. The implications for an organization whose leadership team is poorly focused are serious: Wasted resources, wasted effort, and widespread confusion become the norm."

Dysfunction at the top can hurt the whole company.

04/04/2018

We challenge the status quo when it comes to teamwork and innovation. As George Bernard Shaw famously said: “We don’t stop playing because we grow old: we grow old because we stop playing.”
Great perspective on the role of play for adults and business from : https://virgin.shorthandstories.com/why-adults-play-lego/index.html.

Why do adults play with Lego? By Lucy Jolin Image from gettyimages Image from gettyimages Like most children, Richard Selby played with Lego. When he had his own children, he sat on the floor and played Lego with them. But increasingly, after his children went to bed, he carried on playing. “I wou...