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In the first installment of our essay, Saying Yes To All Work, I mentioned that the class exploring the topic identified that “when the CEO tells you to do something,... Read More
Late on the second day of a three-day workshop, a hand came up a table at the back of the room. I had noticed the person getting increasingly fidgety as... Read More
Stop saying “yes” to everything! “Mastering Work Intake,” by Thomas M Cagley Jr and Jeremy Willets, gives you the tools to prioritize and deliver the right work at the right... Read More
I remember a television show from my distant past, Kids Say The Darndest Things (in re-runs). In the version of the show I first remember, Art Linkletter would ask children... Read More
Charts. The chapter corrected a misconception I have had for at least twenty years which we will get to in Part 2 of our re-read of chapter 4 (we are... Read More
Vacanti begins Chapter 3 of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability by Daniel S. Vacanti, by reminding the reader: “A predictable process behaves in a way we expect it... Read More
This week we begin the read of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability by Daniel S. Vacanti in earnest covering Chapters One and Two. These two chapters... Read More
Today we begin the read of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability by Daniel S. Vacanti. This is the second of Mr. Vacanti’s books we have covered... Read More
In Chapter 11 Marquet uses his new playbook to reimagine how the El Faro could have been saved. This is the last chapter in Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power... Read More
Chapter 10 of Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say – and What You Don’t is titled, The Red-Blue Operating System. Marquet starts this chapter with the... Read More
