Let’s cut to the point: Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) offers a great approach to large companies that want to embrace Agile; …
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.
People, process, and technology … divided by behavior
People, process, and technology is not a law, it is a rule of thumb; we could quibble that people should not need it’s own category, as both process and technology rely on people. However, it is clear in most change that people draw the short straw in design.
I propose we include behavior into functional design.
Who knows? Many times not many people do
In a healthy environment, admitting what you don’t know is part of the process to come to a shared understanding.
In an unhealthy environment sticking to a point you think you know, but do not really know, drives people to defend positions from a point of weakness that can easily turn into an indefensible point of embarrassment.
The separation from noise to decision is about want to know and who you know. Here are 8 steps to go from noise to decision.
The communication obstacle course
A successful message retains the oomph of intent. For this to happen communication must travel an obstacle course to reach each …
In review: Motivation management is resource management
January 2011 in review.  A roundup of blogs from the previous month: Motivation management is resource management — Leaders, managers, and …
The value of information and the link to development
Information is not competitive advantage, knowledge is competitive advantage.  Until you socialize your information amongst others you never discover if the value of your information is actual knowledge. …
8 steps to better decision-making
We now have access to more information than we can possibly process. All that information does not always mean better decision-making. …