Yesterday I was facilitating a Business Agility Meetup in which I brought in some different viewpoints from a typically "non-agile" vertical - construction. As I introduced this talk I used the adage that many of us who have spent the majority of our time in the digital/IT space use when we are talking to folks … Continue reading Reimagining Agility
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Our Customers Don’t Care if We Are Agile
This quote by Steve Jobs, "It Just Works," sums up the long winning streak that Apple had from when Jobs came back to Apple until he unfortunately passed away. During that time Steve and teams delivered innovation after innovation and continued with wins like OS X and iOS from a digital media standpoint, not to mention some underrated killer work like Aperture and Final Cut. But do you know what I never heard? What methodology Apple uses. I also never heard how many people are on each of their teams. And I never heard about their team agreements. Matter-of-fact, all I know is that when I get a product, it just worked; it did what I needed it to do, and if there were bugs they got fixed.
Becoming a Successful Leader
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value" - Albert Einstein I guess I could have put "overused success quote from famous genius" above. To me, a quotation on success or another three to twenty-one point plan is just not what I, or anyone else for that matter, need. … Continue reading Becoming a Successful Leader
