Downloading and watching YouTube movies on your computer

YouTube has a large collection of movies. Some of these movies are excellent to augment a training. However, not always there is a (reliable) internet connection during the training. This Blog will show you a very easy and reliable way to download and play YouTube movies from your computer.

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PDSA

No, not a typo. There is definitely an "S" in PDSA rather than a "C". Most likely the "C"-version is best known because of the same behavior Deming tried to correct on so many occasions.

LinkedIn toolbar for Outlook

For me it is a bit time consuming to keep my contact list up-to-date. Especially my business contacts. With some I have infrequent contact with, but like to stay in touch with. So I tried the LinkedIn toolbar for Outlook.

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Using Google Wave II

I have now much more experience with Google Wave. Especially in real-live collaboration with others.

Problem Solving vs Goal Realizing

During my education I wrote an application letter for an internship pointing out my problem solving skills. The reply was short: "we don't have problems". At that time my mindset was such that I only could laugh; who doesn't have problems to solve?

Dealing with Half-Backed Ideas

Plenty of situations where you, or others, might have an idea. The idea sounds okay or even great, but ...there is a but. The idea is not 'perfect'. The idea has some serious negatives as well. Result: some people try to chop the idea down, some are resisting the chopping.

Oded Cohen of the Goldratt Institute in the UK developed years ago a very practical approach to deal with these kind of situations. This approach is now known as the NBr or Negative Branch.

Book Review: Think! Before It's Too Late

Think!: Before It's Too Late by Edward de Bono I read the Dutch Translation "Creatief Denken - Slimme technieken om problemen op te lossen"

The first couple of pages I thought: WOW! I got some good insight in some of the Thinking Processes (Theory of Constraints). Key in this was 'perception'.

While progressing in the book I became disappointed. More and more I got the impression: this guy is frustrated. A lot of complaining (pretty much in the style he dislikes from others), quite a bit of repetition of why he and his tools are so great, plenty of references that he is so good.