Transformation failure is on leadership. Change principles live or die on leadership connecting vision to value. Agile does not scale without …
Agile without value
Companies continue to fail Agile. Culture without practice is Agile without value. Mindset relies on values guided by principles, not templates or training.
Agile change management needs management change
Agile at scale requires executives’ live, breath, and champion Agile values and principles. This Agile change management plan guides true, Agile change.
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 …
Fast Start — More Toxic Workplace
Fast start conversation: Open-plan office space. All the rage. Well, this office space plan may cause a genuine type rage far …
An Agile example of Scrum by design
From startups to corporate leviathans, the business directive to be more Agile tends to ring hollow. Scrum is the most popular …
Top 10 blog posts for 2012, 5 to 1
Top blog posts from 2012, from number 5 to number 1, a follow-up from Top 10 blog posts for 2012, 10 …
4 design tools to meet persona context
In business we constantly design. By design I include that we design meetings, we design strategy, we design communication, we design training, and we design projects and programs.
Some design efforts, such as strategy, business process re-engineering, or talent engagement initiatives, may result in new processes, new standards, or new tasks, but the design goal remains: adoption and utility.
Buyer persona for organization strategy and development
The technical skills, frameworks, and tools that HR and organization development rely on to understand, communicate, and motivate interventions for people and organizations needs a reboot. A relaunch. A restart. This starts with a peek outside their profession: enter marketing, with a social media twist.
The persona effort, based on the usability and goal-oriented design, is a superior framework to plan, launch, guide, monitor, and manage organization interventions and change management initiatives than many organization development frameworks.
Social Media: Fight, Flight, or Friend — organization development presentation
Below are the slides from today’s Shifting Role of Organization Development in Business conference in St. Louis. To view presentation within this …
Shifting Role of Organization Development in Business – St. Louis bound
Next week I will speak at the 2012, STL-ODN Conference. The day’s theme:Â The Shifting Role of Organization Development in Business. …
Appreciative Leadership by the book
Appreciative Inquiry is on a short-list of prime influences for my management, relationship, facilitation, change management, and organization behavior work. I …