As coaches and change agents, we are so often told to ‘start with why’. As someone who’s used Sinek’s golden circle thinking tool for a very long time, I’m a huge proponent of this. However, while there is often unified consensus around the effectiveness of this approach, I have found Read more…
I hear so many amazing humans in F1000, F500, F10 companies talking about having meetings from 7 to 6, from 8 to 6… and then trying to do their “actual” work after that. Meetings are “actual” work, so let’s make sure we’re prioritizing them, and saying no or “not yet” Read more…
My family would go camping up at Turquoise Lake when I was young. My brother and I loved sleeping in the tent, cooking outside, hiking to find wild strawberries, and playing in and around the lake. We would stay for a few days, and just before we left, when all Read more…
Details, purpose, attendees and agendas vary rather widely in BRP. That’s because Big Room Planning (BRP) is a name used to describe several types of collaborative, large group working sessions. These sessions often include some sort of mid-range or quarterly planning, and the steering and alignment creation needed for such planning.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the very practical ways that leaders at all levels can build an amazing organizational culture through practice. Last week I had the great fun of discussing some of those ideas in a virtual fireside chat with Bob Galen. The video recording of that Read more…
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 culture is shaped by your repeated behaviors, what you allow Read more…
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 all sorts—CEOs, CTOs, visionary directors and both internal and external Read more…
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 be more agile!” or “that’s not agile” or “Do X Read more…
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 I could have an impact. When I was invited to Read more…
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 how you as leaders lean in with us to radically Read more…