I can’t remember if I saw this on social media or if someone said this to me, etc. Yet, I’m finding that I keep thinking about this statement: “You are not stuck in traffic. You are the traffic.” I keep…
Leadership
Leadership
Token Diversity
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I have and will continue to be transparent about my own past and learning and that is now going to include systematic racism (and all ‘isms’). Agile Virtual Summit released a session recording for anyone on the topic of DEI.…
Leadership
Taboo? Topics at Work
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Confession: I’ve said for a very long time, no politics or religion at the workplace. Although I had good intent, I fell victim to believing certain topics are taboo or too risky to have at work. The problem with this…
Leadership, Techniques
Danger of Anonymous Virtual Notes
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I was in a recent virtual meeting and experienced exactly why I really dislike anonymous feedback. Let’s set the scene first. At the end of the meeting, the request was prompted for each person to post a note indicating what…
Leadership, Techniques
Defensive Responses
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I thought about posting today about the protests. I thought about posting today about some element of systematic racism that I’m still digging into to understand in all areas of my life including work. But I started thinking about the…
Leadership
Nothing to Say
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Ok. Obviously, anyone that knows me understands this is not ever completely true but I am experiencing something that is different. After being basically home 95%+ of the time since March 14th, I’m feeling very unmotivated. With the groundhog repetitive…
Book Reviews, Leadership
Shame
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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…
Leadership
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…
Leadership
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…
Leadership
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…