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Power of Clarity & Focus
I have led transformations where in one instance, my team took on an ambitious and what felt like an impossible challenge, which was to...
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Leading Transformations
Transformations don’t follow a linear path. One thing is guaranteed. There will be setbacks. The key is to learn from setbacks. We need...
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Celebrating Success
We want to create a culture of peer-to-peer appreciation. Top down appreciation is good but peer-to-peer gratitude can do amazing things...
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Celebrating Failure
Innovative organisations create and foster a culture of experimentation. This by definition means a culture where it is ok to get things...
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Learning Culture
In the fast moving tech work, it is essential to keep our pencils sharp. As leaders, we need to create and foster a culture of continuous...
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Role of Leaders in Transformations
Leaders play a critical role in any Digital or Agile transformation. This post discusses their role and key challenges. First of all,...
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Resilience
In the context of a transformation or a change initiative, the first thing to do is to look after ourselves. Look after our own physical...
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Human Side of a Transformation
If you are embarking on a large-scale Digital or Agile transformation, this is going to impact people. There is no doubt about that....
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Customer Centricity
In the context of digital and agile transformation, we need to understand and articulate the what problem we are trying to solve. In...
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The Golden Circle
According to Simon Sinek, an American author and motivational speaker, It doesn’t matter what you do, it matters why you do it? People...
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Leading Agile & Digital Transformations
Successful Agile and Digital transformation can bring huge benefits to organisations. They can enable organisations to accelerate...
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Story Mapping Workshop
This post provides a format for running a story mapping workshop with your team. A related post on story mapping describes this effective...
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Leader-Follower Model
This posts describes the leader-follower model. The recommendation is to move away from the model towards leader-leader model in order to...
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Leader-Leader Model
Leader-Leader model is inspired by Turn the Ship Around: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by David Marquet. In this model,...
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Story Mapping
Story mapping is a simple yet effective technique to visualise the product backlog and product evolution though product development...
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Lean Thinking
The core idea is to maximise customer value while minimising waste. Simply, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer...
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Maximising Productivity
Focus on flow to maximise productivity. Here are 10 rules to assist with that: Work done is fruitless until value is delivered. Only the...
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7 Powerful Habits for Leaders
This is a summary of the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. Independence Habit 1: Be Proactive Your life is a...
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Pair Programming
Pair programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation. One, the driver,...
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Active Listening
Active listening is a powerful technique and it requires a lot of practice and hard work. The benefit is that high quality of listening...
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