Authors: Berat Efe Alkan, Duygu Dunbay Why ask better questions? Milan Kundera once wrote, ‘The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.’ As HMD, we also believe in the power of asking questions. Questions can change our view of the world and make us look from a different perspective through…

Author: Gohar Fatima We humans, love stories. And it is only human to share perspectives and form narratives around our experiences. From prehistoric cave paintings to fairy tales, from contemporary storytelling to fiction novels, they all serve as evidence of our love for stories. Moreover, stories are not limited to…

Author: Derya Tombuloğlu After 14 years of experience in business life, one of my most heart-breaking observations is: Most of the change agents (may it be a CEO or a trainee) in any organization (may it be a school or a corporation) are being bullied rather than encouraged. As someone…

Author: Ecem Türkü Taşkıran Every single moment in our lives, we make a decision. Even if we are not making one, it indeed is the result of a prior decision made. …

Author: Berat Efe Alkan Customer centricity is what all influential organizations talk about these days. Many big companies declare their strategy as customer-centered, put customer obsession in their values, and try to change their product-driven approach (focusing on specifications) to being customer-driven (concentrating on the value it creates for the…

The surprising truth behind why we do what we do Author: Duygu Dunbay One of the most cliché questions asked when trying to understand if someone likes their job is, “Would you still work if they didn’t pay you?” It is very much on-point to create such a scenario; taking…

Understanding the Leading Gears of an Organization Author: Banu Betül Çiçek We have all heard the phrase “I just have a gut feeling about it” at some point in our lives, and many of us, most probably, have used it too. There’s a vague idea in the back of our…

A beginner’s menu for organizations Author: Çiğdem Tongal Barnum Effect, Decision Fatigue, Gambler’s Fallacy … the list goes on and on. Countless psychological experiments explain the reasons why we cannot trust our reason solely. We have incredible inherent biases that most of us are blind to. …

That’s what we are made of. We have always believed that the journey makes the destination meaningful. As HMD team, we all come from different backgrounds, experiences, stories, and journeys in life. At some point along the road, we crossed paths and decided to walk together. As Robert Frost said, we took the less traveled one, and that has made all the difference. That’s what amazes us…