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The People I Worked with on Amazing Projects

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu For Friday Reflection, I took a look back through the project teams I’ve lead through some big challenges and even bolder ambitions.  I listed out the people …

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The Most Productive Teams Have These 5 Dynamics

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain You can create a better stage for high performance teams if you know how.   The key is to know what dynamics actually underpin high …

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What Are You Optimizing?

This is such a fundamental question.  It has an enormous impact on your product design and how you structure your product life cycle.  For example, are you optimizing time? … money? … impact? … innovation? … resource utilization? If you don’t answer this question first, it’s very easy to pick the wrong hammer for your …

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How To Use Agile Results To Realize Your Full Potential

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die.” — George Bernard Shaw We all have the potential to know more, do more, be more, and achieve more. A lot of us know we were born for something more, but then we struggle to reach that potential. Rather than wondering about what you are …

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Ability to Execute

If you’re familiar with Gartner’s Magic Quadrants, you’ll recognize Ability to Execute.  “Ability to Execute” is a powerful concept.   Here is a quick mental model to picture Ability to Execute: Ability to Execute is a quick way to help prioritize ideas worth acting on.   After all, what good is a bunch of ideas you can’t …

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