Tag: Leadership
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Happy National Bomb Pop Day
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Things I Wish Leaders Knew About Transformation
An open, letter to leaders, from a candid agile transformation coach. Dear Leader, I am writing you to share some observations I’ve made as I’ve supported leaders through all kinds of transformations for almost 20 years now. I attempt to be candid and direct in sharing these observations. For some of you, they may be challenging…
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Coach’s Challenge – Who do you want to be?
I was dutifully going through my LinkedIn notifications this weekend and stumbled upon a quote shared by Daniel Abrahams. Now mind you, I don’t know who Daniel Abrahams even is, (someone I linked to in the past liked what he had to say,) but I have to tell you – the quote gave me pause. “Sometimes…
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Happy National Train Your Brain Day
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Agile doesn’t make teams better, people do.
Fair warning – Coach Dan is feisty today! Wherever I get in front of a group of people who are newer to the concept of agile and agility, I like to ask them what they think agile is all about. The responses I get are pretty predictable… “Agile is about going faster.” “Agile makes teams more…
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Leadership: Is Authority in Your Way?
As I created that quote, I wasn’t sure that I really liked it all that much. Felt kind of judgy… maybe a little controversial… I actually “focus grouped” it out to a couple of coaches and other folks to get their opinion and the ensuing discussions were actually pretty interesting and valuable – so I’ll…
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Here’s the question…
Today, I am going to be bravely honest: it has been a too long since I took the time to invest in myself with some reading and reflection time. Yes, I know… Shame on me! Everyone can, and should, take time to improve. I was recently reading an article by a guy named Richard Dolman called The “Agile…
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Whatcha been doing lately?
Oh what a loaded question, right? So much going on in the last month or so. So many ways to answer that question! We can think of a leader’s time and energy being split into 4 quadrants: While leaders have to spend time and energy in all four of these quadrants, “agile leaders” (leaders who…
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Dear Agile Marketing Leader…
I’m not going to lie – I’m super proud of (and very fond of) our agile marketers. To a person these are some of the most customer focused, creative, passionate people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. Every day I get a little smarter (not hard considering where I’m starting from) by observing…
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“Agiling in place” – Tales from agile managers
One of my favorite responsibilities is facilitating the Agile Leader Onboarding sessions. In these events – I get to talk to managers and leaders about the agile values and principles, how agile frameworks add value, and about how managing and leading people is very different in an agile environment. Inevitably we get into great conversations…