“The cost of being a bad Scrum Master is lower than the cost of being a bad engineer.” I remember hearing this from a team member who was double dipping as the team’s Scrum Master. And he was right. There wasn’t enough of him to go around, and the org didn’t have a dedicated team […]
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I spent a decade in the U.S. Marine Corps as an intelligence operative and martial arts instructor. It was both some of the most formative and exciting years of my life mixed with excruciatingly long runs, incredibly high expectations, and several harrowing experiences. And it was a blast. After I resigned from the Marine Corps
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Is it just me or does job hunting feel a lot like dating? You’re ghosted often.You get your hopes up only to be let down.You start questioning if there’s something wrong with you. I like how Chelsea Handler puts it. Dating is like job hunting. Sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs before
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People fixate on goals, and it’s easy to understand why. Many don’t realize there are alternatives to goals. And I’m not talking KPIs or OKRs either. To me, these are still goals, just better dressed. I’m talking something different. Imagine a tapestry of constructs that can be interwoven to better achieve progress. So today let
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Can we agree that most people are terrible at asking questions? I understand why. Promotions come because we’re quick to solve problems and arrive at answers, not for our skill at staying curious. However, what got us where we are isn’t what will get us to where we want to go next. As a leader,
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Picture this. A consultant comes into your organization, and he shows up with the solution to all your problems. He helps organizations just like yours, and he knows exactly what you need. So listen up and implement. His solution is clearly the best, and if you think otherwise, you’re mistaken. He’s the expert, and he
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Leaders, let’s talk. Being the first to speak or the person to speak the most does not make you an effective leader. It just makes you an extravert. In fact, there’s a name for this phenomenon, and it’s call the babble hypothesis. People who talk more–regardless of what they say or their intelligence–are more likely
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I keep reading click bait articles about how agile is dead, and I think it’s crap. But it does point to a crisis in the agile coaching community. I think there’s a few things we need to deal with, and until we do, the crisis will remain: So what do we do about? I’m not
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I spent a decade in the Marine Corps, and there’s a lot of about discipline that most people misunderstand. I’ve come to realize this from the number of clients who have hired me specifically to help them apply discipline to their decisions both personally and professionally First, discipline is never loud, assertive, or attention seeking.
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Are you really going to finish that book you started reading? I know it sounded interesting when you started, and I know you want to learn more. After a week of reading though, you’re only 5% through. How do people speed through books in a day or two? It’s nuts. At this rate, you’ll never
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