Giving bad news in Corporate is nearly impossible.
Giving bad news in Corporate is nearly impossible.
So, instead, it gets delivered in small bites. 🍔
When it’s impossible
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OKRs are NOT Pokémon
You don’t “gotta catch ’em all”. 🎮
It’s the same pattern every quarter:
17 new OKRs per tribe.
The
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12 questions that test for the presence of healthy culture:
(Useful to review your company or during an interview)
Leadership Values
- How are leaders promoted here?
- How do
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10 uncomfortable truths every Agilist needs to hear
1️⃣ You can't preach focus while having a calendar that blocks every pixel of daylight.
You're the role model. Act
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Reorganizing is the most expensive way to solve almost any problem
Reorganizing is the most expensive way to solve almost any problem.
Switching one person in the hierarchy for another does
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Stop trying to move so fast; you’re breaking things.
I’m tired of our overemphasis on speed!
Everyone out here trying to go fast, so few actually being effective.
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Business Cases: where innovation goes to die.
Business Cases are where innovation goes to die.
When last did you cancel a project after writing the Business Case?
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"How can I help my team cut through the noise and find focus?"
Hej Cliff - Episode 3
Oana asks the question: "I am working with a team, who gets constantly bombed with
"What are the 3 most impactful Agile changes you have seen at C-Level?"
Hej Cliff - Episode 2
Henrik asks the question: "What are the 3 most impactful Agile changes you have seen
It's not a "management" problem
I keep hearing of the widespread "problems with management" from inside agilist communities.
From Twitter and meet-ups to conferences and
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Don't read more books about agile
Controversially, I don't think you should read more books about Agile.
The obstacles our organizations face are rarely solved by
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Excellence through recognition
I've never seen a company that OVER recognized their employees.
Not even once.
Recognition is not just about making people
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"How to tackle executives being out of the loop?"
Emma asks the question: "How to tackle executives being out of the loop?"
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Agile is not your gas pedal, it's your steering wheel
Agile is one of the most misunderstood concepts in business.
Many people think it's your gas pedal ⛽
- A way
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Don't delegate because you hate the work
Don't delegate the work you hate.
3 techniques to create leverage instead:
In trying to avoid overload, Leaders often defer
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3 Types of Leverage
I used to spend hours polishing unimportant work 🤦🏻
Does "Filing the best tax return in history" pay off somehow?
I
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Managers love to talk about focus. But have you seen their calendars?
You know how they are:
💯% rammed full.
🚫 No space to think + process.
🏃♂️Charging from one meeting to another.
The problem
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Culture is what you do.
Ignore your "values" posters on the wall.
We demonstrate culture with behavior:
In your company, it's how you
🔥 Fire
👋 Hire
Your org has dead canaries in the coal mine.
Yet, you're still focused on improving Canary resilience,
Instead of removing those toxic fumes.
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The one thing nobody copies from Spotify
An overlooked aspect of how we worked during my 4 years there
Transparency was off the charts. 📈
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Overloaded Backlogs are a sign of a weak Strategy
We're drowning because we lack the scaffolding to say no, or not right now. 🚷
It starts at the top, with
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Why does everything take so damn long?!
For one of my clients - all projects took 36+ months! 🕗
We reduced it by 90% with an approach most
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From chaos to clarity: This model keeps my clients organized as they scale.
As companies grow, deciding where to focus and what to fix becomes a trickier question.
Having a Strategy only matters
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Without Focus, Agile teams are as helpful as Ashtrays on a bicycle.
Without Focus, Agile teams are as helpful as Ashtrays on a bicycle.
Yet most Companies invest in:
More People
Working
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