The Striving and Struggling for Some Worthy Goal
As the US entered WWII, FDR proposed a production goal of 50,000 planes the first year. Business...
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Category: Organization & Leadership
Experience or Repetition?
Experience or Repetition? Several years ago, I attended a LeSS annual conference in New York City....
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The structure itself may be the breeding ground for the very chaos managers wish to avoid
In 1977 six young boys commandeered a small fishing boat on their home island of Tonga in the...
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Who’s This Guy?
In 1962 President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy visited Paris. Jacqueline charmed...
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You have to be part of it
The “experts” may not understand the fundamentals. Justice Scalia, in testimony before...
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Independent Third Party Gambit
It’s a typical corporate conference room. The same conference room exists in a thousand other...
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You Don’t Have a Right to Customers
In this weeks episode of the Rework podcast, DHH discusses how difficult it was to cancel his...
Read MoreBas Vodde on Scrum Master Toolbox
I’ll occasionally listen to Vasco Duarte’s podcast, Scrum Master Toolbox. The most recent episode had Bas Vodde, co-founder fo the Large Scale Scrum framework (organizational design!). It’s a great introduction to...
Read MoreYou Pay for What You Get
Have you hired people whom you think will not do the right thing unless you give them a bonus? When the subject of bonus payments based on some measure comes up, and I push back against the concept I often hear the refrain that...
Read MoreWho Hired These People?
I often hear objections when introducing new organizational concepts such as Agile to a management group. Things like a lack of “accountability” or “strategic thinking” on the part of the employees. The employees, they...
Read MoreIt’s a Sculptor Like Way of Working
“The essential way to do anything great, you have to have some kind of incremental development philosophy because you’re just going to be wrong with your grand design that you don’t iterate on.” — Andy Hertzfeld This short video...
Read MoreThe Way to Deal with Controversy
In what I believe is an extremely rare event, a very senior Apple executive appeared on a podcast in front of a live audience. The podcast, The Talk Show with John Gruber, was a very friendly audience, made up of...
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