Transformation failure is on leadership. Change principles live or die on leadership connecting vision to value. Agile does not scale without …
Belief to build, the skeptic’s dilemma
Time and time again, teams are put together and asked to build a solution. The skeptics on these teams, those that …
The skeptic builder makes a mess
Start with belief in why you build something or before you build. A skeptic without belief usually delivers disappointment. Sadly, leaders …
Forget what you learned
That training program you endured was a waste of time. Forget what you learned. Just take a day and you already …
Scrum without Lean HR: #fail
Executives expect Agile results, but too few executives and managers realize the organization change necessary to support Agile results. Agile without …
Fast Start — Failure Demand
Fast start conversation: Demand for time comes from every angle. Critical evaluation looks at Failure Demand as a resource expectation. At …
The 2 most important learning metrics
CEOs care about learning programs. To gain more executive-level interest, guess what learning and development folks? CEOs want metrics. Give them …
High performance team of me
Many times what looks like a team is not team. A high performance team is beyond skin deep and requires shared …
Subjective communication objective
Successful communication inspires action and is clear to others what needs to happen to meet that objective.
All communication faces daunting odds to reach each person, intention intact. Perception, bias, and noise lay between intent, action, and reaction.
To succeed in the communication obstacle course against intent, you need to make clear how to make it happen.
One rule to rule all: listen hear
Many managers take control with the belief their technical expertise in their field is more important in their management role than the challenge to manage finite resources of people, time, and budget.
Any technical ability the manager had, as an individual contributor to meet their functional skill, is not as important as the ability to listen, to motivate, to teach, to learn.
To promote the contrary is to promote insanity.
The change in change management
Change management goes beyond features and functions. Feature and function change management is product change management.
Change management goes beyond scope or requirements. Scope and requirement change management is project change management.
The change that change management needs is an account for how process and technology change the way people meet their objectives.
Fast Start — The brilliant mistake of health and wellness
A healthy employee is a productive employee and health and wellness programs roll out across corporate America to capture this gain.
Compensation expert Carol Harnett shares her brilliant mistake from this Human Resource Executive article and detail on the data to her assumptions that reveal flaws in health and wellness resource commitments.
Fast Start questions brilliant mistakes.