I was speaking to a GM friend the other day and they mentioned that they’ve moved away from agile and are now using more design thinking. It’s another post entirely to share what they meant when they said that–but the language itself is interesting. Lean, agile, devops, design thinking are 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…
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 important to know and share those dates. Arbitrary deadline setting 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…
What you do is transformative. “With senior leaders, initially I don’t try to explain how Elevate has helped us work differently. It’s much more powerful to just say ‘we’re working agile’ and share the clearly different results. Our EVPs can see exactly where and how we are delivering on critical 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…