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A while back I was asked to do an interview on timeboxing for an HBR (Harvard Business Review) book. They didn’t end up using it. It might be just as well since I think it works better as a blog post, especially if you have a passion for learning how to use timeboxing to help …
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 …
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 …
So, if you have a bunch of smart people, a bunch of bright ideas, and everybody wants to talk at the same time … what do you do? Or, you have a bunch of smart people, but they are quiet and nobody is sharing their bright ideas, and the squeaky wheel gets the oil … …
Time boxing is a way to chunk up time and get results. If you continuously miss windows of opportunity or spend all of your time in one area of your life at the expense of others, time boxing can be one of your best tools. A time box is simply a limited set of time …
