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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...

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...

Make Resolving Impediments a Habit

I’ve talked a lot about the rigors of finding and resolving impediments for a team. There is one thing that I have left out: the people...

On Product Ownership

Recently I’ve been dealing with disengaged product owners. You know the type: they don’t show up for the stand-ups, when they come to the...

Leadership Is A Weak Social Force

In the “Robbers Cave Experiment” Sherif speculates that focusing on leadership to reconcile the differences between two groups is...

First Class Impediments

About a year ago I put together a terrific tutorial on finding and managing impediments. It was something that I felt strangely...