Brainstorming is an ego game driven by the loudest and most convincing person in the room. Sometimes they are right, and it works, but most of the time they are wrong, and no good will come of it. Individual reflection on a problem to be solved, individual sketching of how that proble...…
If your idea is up for review and the review isn’t going so well, and you start to get that tingling feeling of personal outrage that someone is criticizing your “baby”, you are about to blow it. Now your idea has become part of you, a representation of your ego, and your ego is under ...…
The questions we ask ourselves every quarter: How did we do with last quarter’s goals? If we missed them, why, and does anything need to change to hit this quarter’s goals? What debt do we have? Technical, experiential, organizational, financial? Prioritised by order of impact (if the d...…
If your people are critical and demand autonomy it means: They haven't bought in to your vision and they want to do their own thing. Which means your leadership sucks. - or - They have bought in and you're in their way…
A leaders number 1 goal is to be the least competent person in the room. A good leader hires people who are more qualified than themselves, and they provide a path for their existing people to grow and move forward. They give people the room, and the encouragement, to outshine their boss…
The alignment of structure is exponential. Let's say you have 6 resources within your "structure". If the structure aligns all 6 then you have 6 resources to the power of 6 units of effort (46,656) all pushing you in the direction that you want to go…
A disagreement usually begins with that's wrong, I don't agree, stop doing that, that's stupid. .…
It isn't what is happening to you, that is the problem. It's how you are reacting to it, that is. Things change and circumstances conspire…