From the Field
Weekly notes for managers stuck in the Vise, teams tired of mistaking motion for progress, and anyone who’s sat through a meeting wondering where the energy in the room just went.
Happy National Awkward Moments Day
🥳 Happy National Awkward Moments Day! – March 18Celebrate the day bySeeing the humor in awkward moments and have fun with them.Being vulnerable –Share stories about our own awkward moments with your team. Laugh over them…
Read more →A Transformation by any other name.
I’ve often wondered if one of the reasons transformations fail to meet expectations, is because so many organizations misuse the word “transformation.” Let’s start with a couple of simple definitions. trans·for·ma·tion /ˌtran(t)sfərˈmāSH(ə)n/ noun a thorough or…
Read more →Moving Mountains
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones” – Confucius Even Confucius was a fan of iteration!
Read more →The insanity of groupthink
📖 “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche’s thinking about how individuals interact when in a group closely aligns with the concept defined by…
Read more →The point is to understand
📖 “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein The siren call to action can be impossible to ignore. In fact, the pressure to “do” can be so great, that we’ll look…
Read more →An open mind can change the world
Over the last 24 hours, I heard 3 questions that really caught my interest. The first question was “How can you coach someone to get better at something if they don’t think they need to improve.”…
Read more →You don’t have to wait
📖 “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank What are you waiting for?✔️ Reflect✔️ Set a goal✔️ Make a small change✔️ Repeat You…
Read more →Failure teaches us…
📖 “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” – John Dewey Some people view failure as a negative, and I can understand why…
Read more →Everything is not fact…
📖 “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius It’s easy to be so confident in a direction or a belief, that…
Read more →Say agility more…
I was having a random conversation with another coach last week, and we had a bit of a shared ‘ah ha’ moment. We, as champions of agility, say the word “agile” (as though it were a…
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