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- Core themes of recent posts
- “Only the fastest survive”
- “Fast paced” = common productivity mirage
- Uncertainty is your friend
- Do you lead effectively for both success and satisfaction?
- Are “standard operating procedures” standard? Useful? How does AI affect this?
- How close is AGI? (and what is that??)
- How to recession-proof your company
- Can AI help with “Who Not How”?
- Is the AI hype over?
- Did AI kill digital transformation?
- Is AI just for corporations or urban environments?
- Language change in the age of AI
- It’s raining money with AI
- How to get better results from AI
- An example of non performance management
- Fake job postings and company values
- AI chatbot example
- Who is responsible for change management?
- Are your managers (or you) failing?
- Is 10X productivity a myth or reality?
- AI is not a “silver bullet” for leaders
- AI and risk … and YOUR company
- Feedback or advice? One can be more powerful …
- Leadership recruiting in the current market
- How a basic fundamental – communication – can undermine any business
- The death of unassisted search …
- AI should not replace CEO jobs
- How to effectively lead AI talent
- Do you KNOW your customers are getting the intended experience?
- Salieri, Mozart, AI, and your business
- Miscommunication, conflicting information, bad information
- Culture – intentional or unintentional?
- Some takeaways from the AAMI 2024 medical device standards conference
- Of tech stacks … and org stacks
- Test out coaching for you
- Outsourcing dangers to medical safety
- How AI can aid work prioritization
- AI will still need checking for a while …
- Software is STILL a leading cause of medical device recalls
- Misleading questions about change management
- Reframing “holidays are stressful”
- Do end of year reviews etc. BEFORE end of year
- Is adding uncertainty necessary for innovation?
- A superb way to develop leadership skills
- Focus company efforts for success
- Wanting or planning for business growth?
- Seven organizational sins?
- Break the Planning Mediocrity Cycle
- How do you lead change?
- Learning leadership from crises
- Company leadership amid crisis, part 2
- Company leadership amid crisis
- Is having a business coach a sign of weakness, especially for leaders?
- A great example of explaining business principles
- Helping workers fail
- Keep experienced people or hire inexperienced?
- Leadership vision
- Are those expected to change, able to change?
- A strategic plan is not a strategy
- Preparing for annual strategic planning
- “Do as I say and not as I do”
- Transparency or surveillance?
- Making your own decisions doesn’t mean alone
- Projects are always about change
- Dealing with issues doesn’t make you a “bad” leader
- Taking out the (head) trash
- Detailed directions or adaptive professionals?
- Why values – and explicit ones – are important
- A leader’s first priority is …
- Are your managers managing?
- People management fundamentals are commonly missing
- Simple in appearance doesn’t mean simple to master
- Arbitrary management/rules lead to arbitrary employee behavior and low engagement
- 4 part harmony works well at work, too
- DISC assessments are highly useful but also highly misused
- Minimize project dependencies … don’t manage them
- The “anti-CEO” playbook is popular … but wrong
- The primary social responsibility of a business is …
- Challenges and solutions in developing software for regulated environments
- Talking AI …
- Back to the future … the computer desktop
- The need for differentiation never goes away …
- The computer desktop hasn’t fundamentally changed since 1984 … why?
- Learn how to surf the AI wave now … before you wipeout
- Can humans compete with AI?
- AI: tool or threat?
- Is ChatGPT the start of a business AI pandemic? Part 2
- Is ChatGPT the start of a business AI pandemic?
- The false dichotomy between “fail fast” and “failure is not an option”
- What people do you need to scale?
- Training as a revenue item
- Training – a “trust me” card
- Human decency and behavior amid constant change
- Mission, values, and vision vs. employee engagement
- Words may actually be important
- Are your mission, values, and vision “real”? A case study from SVB’s failure
- Why your company “governance” may not be so boring after all
- Making company values real – unlike Silicon Valley Bank
- Taming the (data) dust devil
- Improving employee lives (and business results)
- Are assistants no longer needed?
- Your highest value work as a leader
- The 1st priority of a leader or manager
- Leading/managing starts with employee #1
- Using AI tools like ChatGPT can spread biased content
- Stop! before you post a question … anywhere
- Elon Musk and managers
- The only thing we have to fear is …
- Why your “transformation” or “agile” (or whatever) change may be failing …
- A great learning tool for anyone wanting to become a leader or to improve their leadership
- What are a leader’s early warning signs of work going astray?
- Depending on uncertain plans?
- How to win the talent war and your market
- “… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
- “Don’t bring me problems”
- “Training” does not work!
- Mid-year … changed yet?
- A Power Point
- Forget “hybrid workforce”
- Arnold on failure
- Webinar – achieve successful workplace diversity
- How companies can solve economic disadvantage
- Showing up …
- (Remote) leadership issues
- Quick 4 question self-check for your effectiveness as a manager
- The more things change …
- HR is under (another) attack
- HR is under attack
- The death and rebirth of “training”
- Top 10 essential skills for 2025 … and now
- A personal business example of innovating forward
- STILL waiting (or hoping) to get back to “normal”?
- Compliance and agile success – another common hurdle
- These are the best we can do?
- A digital marketing fail
- A crucial insight … and critical flaws
- Is your customer service on empty?
- A common hurdle to achieving agile benefits
- A common hurdle to achieving agile benefits
- Opportunities … lost
- Congratulations!
- Waiting to get back to “normal”? Innovate forward instead of reverting backward!
- Remote work: what to do when you don’t know what to do
- Remote work – 4 reasons yours may fail … and what to do
- Are “best practices” really best?
- “The Only Thing We Have to Fear is …”
- A Simple Formula for Success
- A Team Killer Lurks in Your Company
- Agility Transformation Requires Self-Disruption!
- (Office) Space – The Final Frontier for Your Business?
- Ceremony – A Profound New Method for Increasing Productivity and Achieving Successful Change
- “Failure is Not an Option” Produces Failure
- Why and How to Build An Effective Leadership Pipeline
- How to Become an Agile Leader
- What is Agile Leadership?
- One Month in – Is Your 2017 Plan Working?
- Warning: Do You Make These Management Mistakes?
- What Everyone Ought to Know About Training
- Don’t let business change be like New Year’s resolutions
- Why Do Agile Transformations (Continue to) Fail?
- Get an innovation jump-start
- How to Accelerate Business Change
- A Simple Secret to Highly Effective Organizations
- How Can Government Succeed Amid Relentless Change?
- Why Do Agile Transformations Fail?
- 9 Powerful Trump Cards to Win the Project Game
- 216 slides?!? Presentation Purgatory …
- How to guarantee disconnects with your customers
- How to Lead Creatives
- Cargo cults in the workplace
- How to Create An Awesome Work Culture
- “These Five Are the Best We Can Do?”
- Are Business Bottlenecks Limiting Your Success?
- Software development bottlenecks, take 2
- Lessons on Change … Don’t Change?
- Describe a complete leadership development and succession pipeline
- Why Agile is Failing at Large Companies
- Hacking the Human Mind for Wrong Until Right, part 2
- Hacking the Human Mind for Wrong Until Right – part 1
- The linchpin of organizational health
- “Wrong Until Right” Does NOT Mean “Guilty Until Proven Innocent” – Part 2
- “Wrong Until Right” Does NOT Mean “Guilty Until Proven Innocent”
- One month into the year …
- 16 Things for ’16
- 4X
- Wrong Until Right
- Exiting stealth mode …