High Performance. Innovation. Strategy.
“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.” — Franz Kafka One of the best ways for making sense of a space is to have a lens for looking at it. The productivity and results space are well-traversed, and the body of knowledge is enormous. That’s part of …
“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 …
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” — Albert Einstein I’ve used timeboxing for 20+ years at Microsoft as a way to focus my effort and up my intensity. It’s like turning my work into a series of sprints. I also wrote about timeboxing in my best-selling book on …
Ten at Ten are a very simple tool for helping teams stay focused, connected, and collaborate more effectively, the Agile way. I’ve been leading distributed teams and v-teams for years. I needed a simple way to keep everybody on the same page, expose issues, and help everybody on the team increase their awareness of results …
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” — H.E. Luccock A colleague of mine that’s been using Agile Results as an individual contributor asked me about how to apply Agile Results to a team as a manager. It’s actually a question that I get a lot, so I …
