01 Oct 2024
For all the years I’ve been helping teams grow, I’ve rarely met one who felt that they were exceptional. It’s one of those quirky things where, in one conversation, the leadership will proclaim how great their teams are, and the next, pull me aside and beg for help. There are always issues, so I thought I’d write about some things I’ve noticed that turn good teams into great ones.
13 Mar 2024
At this point, I think almost everyone has heard that research shows that motivated teams perform better than those who aren’t motivated. What is often less obvious, from what I can tell, is how to motivate teams and individuals.
02 Mar 2024
I bet most of you are wondering what the word piseog is and it is pretty tricky to look up. I first encountered it in one of my favorite books, “The Once and Future King” by T.H. White. If you’ve ever watched “The Sword in the Stone” animated movie, you’ve seen the book’s first quarter. It’s a wonderful and tragic telling of the story of King Arthur. I highly recommend it.
26 Feb 2024
Imagine you are setting off to win an ambitious car race. You assemble a team of folks with plenty of experience and lay out a plan.
21 Feb 2024
“You’re going to what?!” the director asks me.
14 Feb 2024
I often think about where large transformations go wrong in organizations. I’ve been through several “agile” flavored ones, and at this point, I think they’re mostly doomed to fail. That doesn’t mean that pursuing agility is a waste of time, but there are a lot of things working against transformations, and I want to bring up one of the issues I see everywhere.
