Innovation – Creative Abrasion
Two things connected for me recently in a stars aligning kind of way. Years ago, 11 in fact, I purchased a creative abrasion training guide for my team thinking that it would a good tool when working with other teams or customers where the relationship was contentious to help us to get through combat to … Continue reading
Measuring for Success
I have read recently that one of the worst things that you can do when measuring the success of your Agile implementation is to use measures to influence people’s behavior. Meaning instead of using your measuring processes to assess the overall success of your products, or as a feedback mechanism to find pain points or … Continue reading
Book Club – Deep Dive by Rich Horwath
Every year I let my team pick a book that some will become the basis of our monthly book club, this year they chose a book called Deep Dive by Rich Horwath. The book focuses on how to implement strategic planning as a team by focusing on three disciplines; acumen or understanding your business environment, … Continue reading
10 Things I Wish Everyone Understood – Email Edition
Reply All Is Best in Moderation We’ve all seen that inbox number spike and looked with dread at a plethora with the same subject line. Is it an emergency? Something catastrophic? No, it’s the dreaded reply all avalanche; completely unnecessary and some might argue a flat out nuisance. Keep in mind that everyone on that … Continue reading
January Links – Conflict, Meetings and Pride
Favorite business links from January 2014 Conflict Strategies for Nice People Dealing with conflict is by far my least favorite thing to do and it’s easily 20% of my daily job. There really isn’t any way to get around it, you can ignore it at your own career peril or you can find the best way … Continue reading
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