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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 […]

Wiseman’s four principles of luck in solutions focused work (part 1)


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 […]

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 […]