Leading for Exceptional Performance
As a leader the thing that I am finally starting to get is simply this... exceptional performance isn’t a repeatable recipe! Exceptional performance happens only when uniqueness is expressed with [...]
ShuHaRi as an Anti-pattern for Agile Exceptional Performance (The Shu Box)
Have you had this experience ? You are working with experienced agilists and are asking questions around why they are doing things the way they are ? What is the [...]
Exceptional Agile Performance – Culture, Autonomy & Feedback
Exceptional Agile performance is a blend of process, practice and people. The way people use the practices and concepts around Agile determines what happens. This means that to create an environment where [...]
Creating Flow – The 20:80 Collaboration Rule
We speak about collaboration and bemoan the fact that our teams aren’t using it, but do we actually want collaboration ? Without it we can’t get work to flow inside [...]
Taking Servant Leadership to a New Level – A New Workshop (Finding Your Agile Blind Spot)
I have been working with Servant Leadership as a 3-day immersion workshop for over 2 years. The workshop is powerful as it takes participants into one of the most persistent [...]
How We Strip Greatness Away From Each Other – Living in a Culture of Smallness
We Live in a Culture of Small - No Greatness Allowed. I know this because of how I am corrected by those around me when I do something that exceeds [...]
Food for Thought – What Are We Really Saying When we Use the Phrase, “Roles & Responsibilities “?
What are we really saying when we start using the phrase ‘roles & responsibilities’ ? This is a phrase that crops up a lot, especially in the beginning of an [...]
Managing Passive Unilateral Control
What happens when as a facilitator you find yourself being challenged by a delegate who is trying their best to control the conversation and force their perspective of what is [...]
Leadership Anti-patterns (Using Servant Leadership to Win)
I had an interesting experience the other day that highlighted an anti-pattern for Servant Leadership that I had not seen before. The context was me expressing a concern around a [...]
Mastery Moment – Servant Leadership Thinking Anti Patterns (Being Right)
There are a number of thinking patterns that compromise Agility and collaboration. One of the more common is the need to be right.Think about it. How often do you find [...]