Have you tried the Balanced Scorecard?

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...

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Feb 14, 2025
This email is for folks serious about leadership

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...

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Jan 31, 2025
Take a step even if you aren't sure of the end

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...

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Jan 10, 2025
Safety matters more than ever

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...

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Dec 06, 2024
2024 is almost over and Sprint Goals are still weird.

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...

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Nov 22, 2024
A set of tools for better meetings 🧙‍♂️

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...

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Nov 08, 2024