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Michael interviewed by Kirsten Dierolf: Video-cast


Kirsten Dierolf has published a video-interview with me on her blog. We talk about how solutions focus can be seen to 50000 and a product of evolution. I will follow this interview with some some blogs on prospective memory and solutions focus later on. There is more on Kirstens website: check out video-interviews with Jim […]

Listening differently: the two sides of a compliment


It is often assumed that we give compliments and acknowledgement for the benifit of the reciever. But consider the other side of the coin: what does giving compliment do to you the person giving compliments. I would like to argue that giving professional compliments is as important for the giver as the reciever, but in […]

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 […]