A while back, a friend had gifted me a book called So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson. I didn’t read it until recently, because I honestly I wasn’t in the right headspace. Plus, I have a thing about reading…
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Pet Peeve – That person has a ceiling
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This round of pet peeves is focused on my disgust of hearing “well, so-so has a ceiling. They couldn’t do that.” I haven’t done a pet peeves post lately but I happened to hear this three times in a matter…
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Perspective
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Ok, I’m retrospected out. So I thought I’ll finish this month with some perspective posts too. I recently met up with Chris Li. He was in town to deliver his Advanced training for CSP-SM with Scrum Alliance. I had the…
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Big Change in Leadership
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I wrote this question down at a conference this year “What’s the big change in your leadership?”. Unfortunately, I don’t remember why I wrote the question down at the time. I came across this note months later and have lost…
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Trainer vs Coach
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I’ve been seeing/hearing a few posts/emails/discussion on which is better an Agile Trainer or an Agile Coach. I haven’t done a pet peeves post in a while but this one might be close – more of a rant post. Agile…
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Making People Happy
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During a leadership panel at Agile2019, one of the top answers to what is challenging for leaders was “Making everyone happy”. I was thrown a bit on stage as the facilitator asked me a question about this because in that…
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Team Evolution – What I notice
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I’ve done several posts about team evolution. However, recently I received more questions about what would you notice at each stage. The reality is there is no one right answer to this question. You can search different characteristics – but…
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Measuring Leaders
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There are going to be a few posts from attending the Singularity University Global Summit that I recently attended in August. I was listening to a Q & A panel with Charlene Li, Ricardo Vargas, and John Hagel. At first I…
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I vs We Feedback
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Recently, I was meeting with someone that had been interviewing internally for a senior leadership position within her company. She wanted to talk with me about a specific piece of feedback that she had received. “You need to say ‘I’…
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Learning: Risk & Failure
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There are going to be a few posts from attending the Singularity University Global Summit that I recently attended in August. Unfortunately, I wrote this down but didn’t write down which speaker said this. My apologies. However, I still want to…