SGL-Blog

Other people’s recognitions.

The blog is where the methodology meets someone else’s workday.

An outdoor chess game in a park, pieces mid-game — Four posts, four colour codes — each one opens a door into a secret.

Secret 1 Communication is powerWhat we write leaves traces that say who we are — and the four language colours decide what the receiver actually hears. Secret 2 On flowThe TeamZone, and what happens when you are forced out of your own comfort zone — dismissal, divorce, diagnosis, a move — and the grief reactions that come with it. Secret 6 The whole storyWhy chess has engaged every culture it reached: the four archetypal roles, the Veda literature, and what inheritance decides about who you become. Secret 9 Teams & tonesKnut Birkeland on Borodin’s quartet, Dvořák under the Berlin Philharmonic, and why music shows rather than tells how a team works.

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