Lead with Heart
Why the Elephant?
The Elephant connects to several aspects of our work and mission. We share how elephants represent our “why”
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I’m an SPC… now what?
My general answer when I receive a question like this is “Try it. Apply the ideas to see how you can get impact in your organization. Work with others to create even more impact and learn as a group. Then, use this as the beginning of a learning journey to continue improving and developing your skills further.” After all, training is about the knowledge, not the certification, and the value of that knowledge is essentially zero if you don’t apply it.
Deliver with Confidence
Stop saying “culture change is hard”
I don’t usually say this kind of thing, but it’s kind of bullsh*t that culture change is hard. Get clarity You and your leadership team each own how you behave individually, and how you show up and behave collectively. Your Read more…
Deliver with Confidence
Plan to Learn
If you want to move your company toward one that is more effective, innovative and nimble, then you want to move your company culture toward one that truly values learning and growth. As a leader, one way you can do Read more…
Lead with Heart
Mind the (Culture) Gap
When you dream of working at a company more suited to you—to your beliefs, your style, your…self—what do you imagine? And what are the current company norms you encounter that send you into that daydream? I help Change Agents of Read more…
Steer with Clarity
Ten Essential LPM Behaviors
aka: Don’t Cripple your Portfolio Agility The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) provides a very powerful portfolio model that allows companies to articulate, steer, and capture the benefits of technology investments. Like the rest of SAFe, however, there is a lot Read more…
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Use fewer due dates to deliver more value
Deadlines or due dates are a part of business (and all) life. Some dates are critical, like events where we have 500 customers joining us for a webinar, or dates where the business can incur significant liability or penalty. It’s Read more…
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Is your agility fit for purpose?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of agility, and why companies would even bother with it in the first place. Too often these days, I see agility becoming its own purpose, exposed by language of “We need to Read more…
Lead with Heart
Giving back is saying “yes”
The constant stream of grim news about the Covid-19 global pandemic sweeping the world and about the struggles of world governments to respond has me reeling emotionally and intellectually. I want to do something, but at first didn’t know where Read more…
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Kidding, Not Kidding
Strategic Lean-Agile Purpose Deployment We hope you enjoyed reading our April 1st SLAPD post as much as we enjoyed writing it. It was silly, but it wasn’t all a joke. The acronym is silly, but we were quite serious about Read more…
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Elevate Clients Get SLAPD
Elevate Clients Get SLAPD Elevate clients are getting SLAPD left and right, and they’re not only happy about it, they usually end up getting other executives around them SLAPD too. Sometimes, they even move to new jobs and ask to Read more…