Happy Friday,I've been working on growing my skillset in marketing lately. Marketing is my biggest weakness by far. In the past two months I've taken 4 online classes, read a book, and started to put some of that new information to work on my website...
Happy Friday!You know what sucks? Massive powerpoint decks full of updates and nothing informative. It sucks to sit through slide after slide of updates and try to piece together where your project, group, or organization stands. It sucks to ask what...
Happy Friday!When you're in a leadership position, it can feel like all of your time is used up by having to intervene on one crisis or another. Instead of looking ahead and creating opportunities or clearing a path, you have to go to another meeting...
Happy Friday,Change is inevitable. It could affect the direction of work, staff, technologies, laws, ownership, compensation, organization, and more. Great leaders are able to respond to these changes by acknowledging the challenge while rallying tho...
Happy Friday,I'm sure you've seen this—a standards document covered in layers of dust with groups operating to the cry of, "No, this is an exception!" I know I have. More often than not, I see any attempt at standards turn into a case where following...
Happy Friday!Yes, I know you haven't received an email from me in a while. I hope you endured these dark times.I was thinking about a common pattern that I deal with quite a lot, even in my personal life, and I wanted to write about it. I most common...
Happy Friday,As we enter the holiday season, plenty of news stories indicate that many people will experience stress, fear, and outrage. In case you haven't been keeping up with the news, and I don't blame you, the CEO of UnitedHealth was shot to dea...
Happy Friday!Back in 2011 the world's most popular agile framework, Scrum, changed. You see prior to that, every time the team planned a sprint they were told they had to commit to completing everything they planned. After 2011, the team was asked to...
Happy Friday,I'm going to keep this email pretty short and sweet.I hate crappy meetings, and way too many meetings are, in fact, crappy.Lots of people don't know why they're meeting, the meeting lacks a useful structure, people are disengaged, and th...
Happy Friday,This email is a bit different than others in that I'm going to share a bit about an engagement that recently wrapped up. I think it's interesting, and it shows a bit about how I work with clients in a way that is different than most othe...