This is a continuation of Manifesto for 21st Century Management - Part I. If you don’t see the importance of these statements at the first glance, I highly recommend reading it before delving into Part 2. In this article, I will be elaborating on each one of these sta...
Frank, the product owner of this mid-sized company was in at 7 am, scrolling through a list of 400 items in his backlog, preparing for the 9 am sprint planning. His company just started adopting Agile.
I said, “Good morning!” with a smile, and knowing that his team felt...
I once went to a seminar which was all about “Mindfulness.” The participants were mostly middle-aged or older men and women who looked at each other with squinty eyes as if they were bathing in compassion and delight. I was very young at that time and all this seemed v...
I remember walking back home from work one rainy evening in downtown Seattle. I had a great day at work. I had a smile on my face. A homeless guy at the end of the street selling the Real Change newspaper knew that smiling faces don't turn down anticipatory looks. I bo...
I shared the below picture on LinkedIn last week, and it got a lot of attention. It does a good job of portraying the underlying mindset that leads us to take the stance of developing our people (or not). Now I am going to write about the dark side of “dev...
DO YOU have disengaged participants in your training class? Hecklers, phone-obsessed texters, or even the quiet, blank-faced observers who are resistant to learn what you’re teaching.
These individuals can feel like a frustrating ‘hindrance’ to your overall didactic in...
"Seemed like a good idea in the early days of Scrum, but in practice has often been misused as a management report, inviting intervention. The ScrumMaster should discontinue use of this chart if it becomes an impediment to team self-organization"
"... well-structured noise can jolt a (social) system out of inferior equilibria and lead it toward superior ones, and choice mechanisms can be designed to introduce such noise in a decentralized way. This intuition is contrary to our usual way of thinking about such p...
