Category: Blog
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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 Irving Janis in 1972 called “groupthink.” ✏️ Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon in which people strive for consensus within…
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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 at data- make an assumption and then act without ever looking back. Albert Einstein seemed to be warning us…
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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.” The second question was “What do you do with that one person on the team who always seems to…
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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 don’t have to swing for the fences every day. Small experiments bring about small changes that add up over…
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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 that might be. Consider this…. 🤔 If you never fail, did you really give everything you could to something?…
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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 we forget to reflect. Challenge yourself to reflect and identify bias in your own thinking. You may be surprised…
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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 destination, or a goal,) way more than we should.Perhaps WE, as coaches, scrum masters, and champions, need to challenge…
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Make a difference!
📖 “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall The daily leadership calendar hits just right again! Every single day we make an…
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Empowerment comes from knowing how to think.
“I want my team to be more accountable.” “I wish my team took initiative more often.” “It would be great if my team thought more ‘out of the box.’” Teach your team HOW to think, instead of WHAT to think. Teams follow your lead, so if you’re looking for improvements in them… why not start…