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    Category: Leadership

    Lead from the Heart

    I lead from the heart, not from the brain. Which according to a Fastcompany article, which includes some great research conducted by the Institute of HeartMath,…

    Peter 2021-07-10
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    Agile Can Be Difficult to Adopt – 5 Things to Consider

    Agile has been all the rage in software development for many years now. Its popularity exists mostly among smaller teams that iterate quickly and release…

    Peter 2021-06-05
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    Culture is What People Care About

    Are you a consultant, agile coach, or employee of a company? Lol. That’s all of you!  Here’s the hard truth: You are not as effective as…

    Peter 2021-05-08
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    Office Hours and Conformity? – No. Delivery is King!

    During one of my CSM classes, I was discussing with a student that her company still has office hours and they are “required” to be…

    Peter 2021-04-19
    2 Comments

    Leadership and Data – A Filtered Experience

    “As organizations (and societies) grow larger and more complex, the people at the top (whether managers or analysts) depend less and less on firsthand experience, more…

    Peter 2021-04-10
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    “I intend to …, and …”

    I was co-training an Agile for Teams workshop with Rob Myers last week. This group had been trying to do Scrum, with some success.  Our…

    Henry Dittmer 2017-06-21
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    “We don’t expect a perfect Sprint. We expect a perfect effort.” – i.e. Commitment

    As I train and coach Scrum across the country, I’m often struck with the power how certain words can create a sense of fear in…

    Henry Dittmer 2017-05-16
    3 Comments

    This Cognitive Bias kills our ability to thrive in complexity

    Does this sound familiar? I was a Program Manager for over a decade, during which time I must have facilitated dozens of “project post-mortems”, a…

    Peter Green 2017-03-20
    2 Comments

    80/20 Facilitation (or, all the study on facilitation most people need)

    In response to my recent post on developing your skills in 2016, several people mentioned facilitation as a skill they want to grow. As with…

    Richard Lawrence 2016-06-08
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    Turn The Ship Around – A View Into Agile Leadership

    Note: This post is adapted from some posts that I originally created on Adobe’s blog while I was an employee there. I recently finished reading former…

    Peter Green 2016-01-26
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    Scrum as an agent of culture change

    Peter Drucker invented most modern management practices. He was an in-demand coach to hundreds of top leaders in the world’s largest organizations. When he suggested that “culture…

    Peter Green 2015-09-20
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    Scrum as an agent of culture change part 2

    In part one of this series, we defined culture. We also described why it is both critical and hard to work on. Finally, we left…

    Peter Green 2015-09-02
    2 Comments

    Reinventing Organizations Video now with Korean subtitles

    Thanks to Hahn Ryu of D.CAMP, our video describing Frederic Laloux’s book Reinventing Organizations and its application for lean and agile adoption is now available…

    Peter Green 2015-08-11
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    The Context for Agility

    Some people learn best by reading. Others prefer video. So, I’ve created a video of my blog post: The Future of Agile, Changing the World of…

    Peter Green 2015-07-29
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    On Human Capital – HR and Agile

    Human capital is just one of an organization’s intangible assets. It is basically all of the competencies and commitment of the people within an organization…

    Peter 2015-06-08
    3 Comments

    The future of agile: changing the world of work

    I gave a presentation at the Scrum Gathering in Phoenix AZ about the historic context of Agile and Scrum, and where we are headed next.…

    Peter Green 2015-05-14
    10 Comments

    Laloux Cultural Model and Agile Adoption

    I had invested years of my life in a ground up, large-scale agile adoption. The early years of the adoption seemed to go at breakneck…

    Peter Green 2015-04-15
    19 Comments

    The Power of 3 Words

    Some of the most significant messages people deliver to one another often come in just three words. When spoken or conveyed, those statements have the…

    Peter 2015-04-06
    4 Comments

    20 Common Logical Fallacies – Don’t Be a Victim!

    Faulty thinking is part of life. We’re not perfect, nor do we think perfectly. It is, however, helpful to identify faulty thinking in our own…

    Peter 2015-03-17
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    Life Change Starts with Clarity

    There are moments where each one of us have wished for significant life change – this could be related to our current circumstances, our jobs,…

    Peter 2015-02-03
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    There are moments where each one of us have wished for significant life change - this could be related to our current circumstances, our jobs, our vocations, our relationships, and even something about ourselves. Our constant desire for improvement and life change is a natural consequence of being human as all of us desperately want to see forward momentum and progress. We want to see that "breakthrough" because there's something within all of us that speaks to us deeply about how things today are not as good as they possibly could be. As a result we're willing to put ourselves at risk, to try new things and new relationships for the hope and the chance of obtaining that which we do not have yet but believe that we can have soon. That's why the "self-help" and "self-improvement" industry is a billion dollar industry - in 2008 it was estimate that it would scale beyond $11 billion (and that was 4 years ago)! Despite the changing economic tidal waves which we've all experienced the market is continuing to expand and grow. Although I'm not a fan of everything that I see sitting out on the shelves at your local Barnes and Noble I do encounter occasional gems that remind me why I love the industry that I'm a part of. Every week I am able to walk through people and organizations through our unique processes of helping them explore the opportunities they didn't know even existed. What happens, though, is the genesis of incredible life change, of turning raw potential into incredible power. And I get to be a small part of it. What's neat is that I'm not doing anything extraordinary - I'm walking people through their systems and processes, providing guidance, direction, and a little contextualization of what is already happening. Even in a recent coaching session the person remarked:
    Wow. I can't believe we've been doing it long and this wrong! Your help and guidance has helped us solve problems we've been struggling for... for years! Have you've been reading my email about our problems?
    The "mail" has always been there and has been delivered every single day - we're just providing a better way of sorting, reading, and getting something out of it, together. Life change doesn't happen overnight but it has to start somewhere and it starts with a small injection of clarity - of who you are, how you act and influence others, and what you can do about it. It's a spark and the beginning of something incredible. So, in many ways, we start with understanding YOU. I'm so thankful for the opportunity to serve those that we get to serve and I want to do it even more. We're slowly growing, expanding our own influence, and helping individuals and businesses thrive. I can feel good about that.

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