Agility Leadership Coach | Coach Dan Estby

Agile Leadership Coaching

Busy Isn’t the Same as Effective.

I’m Coach Dan. I help squads stop confusing motion with progress, using the same Three Dial framework at the center of my book, Effective. Efficient. Engaged.

From the Blog

Field Notes for the Vise

New posts most Tuesdays. Real teams, real screwups, the occasional graph.

How to keep your transformation from stalling…

TLDR: We all want our product teams to be Effective, Efficient, and Engaged. But how do we keep our agile…

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Volition Isn’t a Trait. It’s a Condition.

TLDR: Brooks is right that volition is the new edge in the AI age. He’s wrong that it’s a personal…

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Tomorrow’s illiterate…will be the man who has not learned how to learn.

“Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read; he will be the man who has not learned how…

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The Book

Effective. Efficient. Engaged.

Measuring What AI Can’t: A Leadership Framework for the Human Side of Transformation

Seventeen chapters on why your dashboard might be lying to you, and what to do about the dial nobody’s reading.