Better Leaders. Better Results.
“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 …
As one of my wise mentors always said, “If it’s free, it’s for me.” (Tom, are you out there?) Here is a quick list of free leadership tools you can use today, right now, to change your game. These tools are battle-tested and have stood the test of time. The beauty is you can take …
Recently, I’ve been teaching more people Agile Results. I teach them really fast, because I just focus on teaching them the most important tool in Agile Results: Monday Vision, Daily Wins, Friday Reflection But before I walk through, I share a quick story of how it all started. Monday Vision was Born for Better Fridays …
