Reinventing Organizations, by Frederic Laloux, provides a comprehensive overview of how humans have organized in groups over the centuries. My colleague, Peter Green, did an amazing post with a video summary. An alternative very short summary: Red: Street Gang (constant exercise…
Leadership
Leadership
Perspectives on Selling
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When I’m leading in an organization, I’ve been very intentional that I never wanted to “sell” a change. It is not that I don’t understand the dynamics of how people respond to change but instead, I would do some combination…
Leadership
Women in X
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Honestly, I’m super nervous about writing this post. Partially because I seemingly have a different perspective from many women. Additionally, sometimes talking about this topic makes you a target. However, both of those reasons are exactly why I should be…
Coaching, Leadership, Techniques
Quality and Value
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Here’s an exercise to try with your team (that I believed I learned at a conference) focused on Quality and Value. Preparation: Create the following signs: Quality = Value Quality < > Value Quality inside of Value Value inside of…
Agile, Coaching, Leadership, Managing, Training
WTF
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Anyone that knows me personally, is well aware of my sailor talking abilities. WTF is a well-used favorite of mine. Recently, I was teaching in a class and my co-trainer mentioned learning that leaders should change”WTF” in the traditional sense to “Where’s…
Leadership, Techniques
Risk Response Strategies
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Somehow in the world of Agile, many teams (leaders) have forgotten/neglected the powerful tool of Risk Management, specifically Risk Response Strategies. I’m not going to be sharing any new definitions. This stuff has been around for quite some time but…
Challenges, Leadership
Don’t tell me to smile
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When I realized I was going to write this post, I initially thought this issue was something that just recently started happening. Then I started thinking back on situations that I would highlight and nope, this has always happened…I’m finally…
Agile, Challenges, Coaching, Feedback, Leadership, Techniques
Leadership Circle
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This past week, I spent three days being certified to promote and debrief a Leadership Circle profile. Honestly, I’m feeling overwhelmed with how to write this post given the volume of insights and ideas that I swirling in my head. Please bear…
Coaching, Leadership
Practice what you teach
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This is not a political post. I repeat: This is not a political post. Yet, this political season gave me plenty of challenges and I had to admit…that despite my training, despite my training for others, I found myself not practicing…
Challenges, Leadership
Hackathon Pet Peeves
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This post is not focused on the “right” structure of hackathons (as if that wasn’t completely dependent on the organization). So regardless of whether you are striving for a Google’s 20% time approach, Atlassian’s ShipIt approach, or any other model…there…