Kanban and Behavioral Change
One of my favorite and yet most surprising things I learned about Kanban over the years is how it steers change of behavior among mature teams. It shouldn’t be a surprise that at Kanban Leadership...
View ArticleOn Feedback
I’m not a native English speaker, which basically means my English is far from perfect. Not a surprise, eh? Anyway, it happens sometimes when one of natives I’m talking with corrects me or...
View ArticleScott Berkun on Consultants and Practitioners
Continuing the discussion on differing perspectives of consultants and practitioners, I have asked Scott Berkun a few questions on the subject. I chose Scott because for the past few months he has...
View ArticleOn Transparency
One of things I’ve learned throughout my career is to assume very little and expect to learn very much whenever changing a job. In terms of learning, there always is a great lesson waiting there for...
View ArticleAgainst Rightshifting
Rightshifting is a nice idea. In its origin it says about improving effectiveness of organizations. When an organization rightshifts it becomes aware of different approaches, methods and techniques...
View ArticleWhy People Don’t Learn
Josh Bradley in a comment under one of my older posts made me realize an interesting thing. Let me do the weirdest thing ever and quote myself a few times. “In general, people don’t care if you want...
View ArticlePersonal Ritual Dissent
If I got a dollar each time I heard someone mentioning that they’d like to get more feedback I would be filthy rich by now. Heck, if I got a dollar each time I personally said that I would still got a...
View ArticleThe Fallacy of Shu-Ha-Ri
Shu-Ha-Ri is frequently used as a good model that shows how we adopt new skills. The general idea is pretty simple. First, we just follow the rules. We don’t ask how the thing works, we just do the...
View ArticleBetter Conferences or Better Learning?
Bob Marshall recently published his ideas how to improve conferences. Pretty radical ideas I’d say. Basically what Bob proposes is to move from traditional one-way communication to bi- or...
View ArticleWhat Do You Want To Do In Two Years From Now?
As a manager of 130-something people I often have these chats on what opportunities people have to grow within the organization. You know, with such crowd you can pretty safely assume that people do...
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