Cooks and Chefs: Why Agile Hasn’t Fixed Our ProblemsCooks follow recipes. Chefs create them. It’s much easier to copy recipes that work, and for many aspects of our life, it probably makes…Oct 29, 2020Oct 29, 2020
Collective Sensemaking for Wicked ProblemsImagine you were just invited to play a game, but no one knows the rules. What do you do when something doesn’t make sense? Well, as each…Aug 11, 20201Aug 11, 20201
The Four Lenses of Wicked LeadershipThe four lenses operate in a continuum between the poles of the invisible aspects (left side) and the visible aspects (right side), as…Jun 13, 2020Jun 13, 2020
The Infinite GameThere was a time when Enron Corp. was considered one of the best corporations in the world. It was voted “most innovative” six years in a…May 29, 2020May 29, 2020
Operation Cat Drop: Why it’s Important to Think in Systems.System. We hear and use the word all the time. “There’s no sense in trying to buck the system,” we might say. Or, “ I need a better…Mar 10, 2020Mar 10, 2020
Leadership at All LevelsI will forever remember the night of May 29, 1991. Not because it was my birthday but because my dad and I watched the Red Star Belgrade…Mar 4, 2020Mar 4, 2020
Published inThe StartupTitanic MindsetI have always been fascinated by the story of the Titanic, and why the ship met its tragic fate. From the architects and engineers, to the…Mar 4, 2020Mar 4, 2020
The demise of the Scrum MasterOnce upon a time, the Scrum Master role was an outlandish concept at the fringes of software development. Now there are thousands of Scrum…Feb 20, 20201Feb 20, 20201
Accepting What “Already Is”The status quo of forcing and imposing change in organizations can only be transcended by leadership first accepting what “already is”…Feb 18, 20201Feb 18, 20201
Vertical and Horizontal Leadership DevelopmentThe summer of 1993 was one of the most difficult summers in my life. As a 10-year-old, my view of the world was constrained to my…Feb 5, 2020Feb 5, 2020
