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...
Read Moreby David Stackleather | Mar 1, 2021 | Organization & Leadership | 0
As the US entered WWII, FDR proposed a production goal of 50,000 planes the first year. Business...
Read Moreby David Stackleather | Jun 9, 2020 | Organization & Leadership | 0
Experience or Repetition? Several years ago, I attended a LeSS annual conference in New York City....
Read Moreby David Stackleather | May 19, 2020 | Organization & Leadership | 0
In 1977 six young boys commandeered a small fishing boat on their home island of Tonga in the...
Read Moreby David Stackleather | Oct 30, 2019 | Organization & Leadership | 0
In 1962 President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy visited Paris. Jacqueline charmed...
Read Moreby David Stackleather | Oct 15, 2019 | Organization & Leadership | 0
The “experts” may not understand the fundamentals. Justice Scalia, in testimony before...
Read Moreby David Stackleather | Oct 3, 2019 | Organization & Leadership | 0
It’s a typical corporate conference room. The same conference room exists in a thousand other...
Read Moreby David Stackleather | Apr 8, 2019 | Organization & Leadership | 0
In this weeks episode of the Rework podcast, DHH discusses how difficult it was to cancel his...
Read Moreby David Stackleather | Feb 9, 2019 | Organization & Leadership | 0
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 Moreby David Stackleather | Jul 31, 2018 | Organization & Leadership | 0
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 Moreby David Stackleather | Jul 25, 2018 | Organization & Leadership | 0
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 Moreby David Stackleather | Jun 25, 2018 | Organization & Leadership, Work Methods | 0
“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 Moreby David Stackleather | Jul 13, 2015 | Organization & Leadership | 0
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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