Accomplishing Personal Goals Using Agile

In a recent podcast, I encouraged my listeners to break their personal goals or objectives into small tasks that could be accomplished fast so that they could see and celebrate their successes quicker and, in so doing, be able to identify and course correct when things were not going as planned. Today, I’m going to…

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Dealing with a Dinosaur

It is said that dinosaurs went extinct about sixty-six million years ago. Truth of the matter is no one really knows why. Some scientists say climate change did them in. While others say a giant asteroid took them out. I am not here to argue the various scientific theories of the extinction of the dinosaurs.…

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Stealing Fire from the Gods: Becoming a GREAT Leader

In 2008, the technology Titan, Google, launched an internal company wide review to find out what made a manager GREAT! They identified eight behaviors—”being a good coach” came in at the top of that list, trumping even technical expertise. Fast forward to 2018, Google modified two of the eight behaviors and added two additional behaviors.…

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