Some people would say they are lucky, other would say the are plagued by unluck. Is this true, in real life? What magical forces of the universe would bestow one individual with luck and another with bad luck? Is this just a myths about human life that we could ask the TV-Myth-busters to demolish?. Oddly […]

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 […]

Nobody doubts the value in using compliments, acknowledgement and validation in solution focused work. But sometimes it doesn’t work as well as we would like. Not everyone in every situation responds well to compliments. It might feel or be experienced as tacky or patronising. Another problem with compliments is that they are short-range. The compliment […]