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…
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 get SLAPD there! You could say they are SLAPD-happy. Why Read more…
One of the more interesting challenges in founding a company focused on bringing agility, advanced facilitation, and radical alignment to leadership teams is that we don’t have existing language to describe much of what we do, even to our most trusted partners and customers. People that have experienced it with Read more…
What you do is magic! (But I have no idea how to tell my colleagues what it is…) “There’s magic in what you do, here, but I don’t know how to describe what it is you do. I just tell them ‘it’s agile for the whole business.’ ” Read more…
Are you ready for the new year? The new decade? What did you do to get ready for 2020? This is the perfect season to reflect on 2019, and to set your intent (not just your budget) for your organization for the year. In this short blog series, we’d like Read more…
Something special happens when you find people who have the same mission, the same heart and mindset, and the same approach toward teaching and learning together. What do you do but join forces? We are all eager to change our clients’ lives for the better, and eager to learn and Read more…
This is a guest post by Rosemary Astra-Blossom, an amazing woman I’ve worked with on several recent workshops and events. When she asked for guidance on how to process the results of the interviews, and I responded with “It’s hard to describe, I’ll have to show you” and then walked Read more…
A customer recently asked how I defined an “empathy interview.” Because she needed to explain it to the leadership team around her, I needed to provide a better answer than my typical stammering about “understanding” and “being ready” and “connecting.” As all good engineers would do, my next effort was Read more…