Leadership

Pernicious Escalation

I found this lovely pairing of words in Yves Morieux’s book, Six Simple Rules. He was talking about the corrosive effect that problem...

Dev + Friends

I was introduced to a new concept a while ago: Dev + Friends Apparently it works like this: the only truly productive people in an...

Your Company is Not a Machine

Your organization… Your company… Your division… Your team… None of these things are a machine. In fact, if it’s made out of people, then...

Open Agile Management 2016

This September 16th we are going to hold a brand new conference in Seattle. It’s a conference dedicated to Agile Management. It’s for...

Push v. Pull: Part 2

Full of new enthusiasm courtesy of his impromptu mentor Rex, Peter was eager to try some of them out in the next race. He went home and...

Push v. Pull: A Leadership Story

It hadn’t been a very good race. In fact, it wasn’t an understatement to say it had been a disaster. To Peter Smith it was embarrassing...