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Trying to please everyone when you really don’t want to is a fickle way to try and lead. This leadership style doesn’t actually work. The constant behavior of changing your mind in an effort to [...]

Lincoln famously said, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” The whole idea of properly planning and preparing isn’t a new concept. We all [...]

One mistake teams new to Agile development make is an overeagerness to always work on the highest value items. Once there are mechanisms to prioritize and make choices, there can be a knee-jerk [...]

Other than saying “good”, the most common word that people respond with to the question – How are you? – is “busy”. The typical response to that is “busy is good”. We have it [...]

Sir William Osler is best known as one of the most famous physicians in his day; someone that was knighted by the King of England, was widely written about and helped organize the John Hopkins [...]

Even though when starting out with a new client, on a new product or implementing a change we might not know all of the answers, the act of planning on a regular basis leads to better results. I [...]

Churchill famously lost his job as First Lord of the Admiralty as a result of the failed Gallipoli campaign during the first World War (despite it not really being his fault). He then oversaw the [...]

Let me start this article by saying I don’t know where to start. The idea of doing what we need to do vs. what we want to do vs. what we believe we can do is an ongoing saga for us as people, [...]

  Let me start this article by saying I don’t know where to start. The idea of doing what we need to do vs. what we want to do vs. what we believe we can do is an ongoing saga for us [...]