Author Archives for Michael Hjerth
Is it a good idea to be neutral to compliments and critique?
In a recent blog, Solution-Focused Change: The compliment and the acrimony, the very productive and always interesting solution focused blogger Coert Visser talks about Maya Angelou’s stance of not letting neither compliments nor acrimony disturb her work, since work should be a reward in itself.
Maya Angelou says: The reward for the doing must be […]
Chance Favors the Prepared Mind
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
This quote from the great french scientist Louis Pasteur reminded me of one of they keys in solutions focus: the future perfect and the power of chance. By imagining, as clear as possible, how you would like a prefered future […]