In my last article I explored the question: “What is psychological safety?” as it not only a recent buzzword being bandied about, but something that, counter-intuitively, we see far less of these days. One would think that societies, corporations, and governments would become better at bringing out the best in their people and teams, but…
Harnessing the Hidden Talent of Employees
There is common trend prevalent amongst organization across the globe from past couple of years concerning employees leaving away their cushy corporate jobs for seeking a taste of start-up life. Some of the key reasons behind employees such a bold step is: Live up the passion Stressful job Robotic routine life Lack of clarity/growth at…
Hyper-Personalization — Next Generation Customer Experience Redefined?
We are living in a world where every other organization on the planet is striving hard to sell their products / services to potential customers by wrapping them under the glossy & glittery packaging of digital transformation. Though, it might make their lives easier to achieve those conventional sales targets at the end of financial…
Digital Transformation: Decoding Transition from B2B to H2H Experience
Digital Transformation has become one of the hottest ‘buzz words’ of today’s times. And why not, when we discover even baby products manufacturers and renowned accounting firms are heavily betting on this term. The increasing internet and mobile penetration has led to a digital disruption & none of the industries had remained untouched with this…
Collaborative Mentoring: Decoding Digital Transformation Secret of Business Sustainability
Digital Transformation has been the most concerning agenda for every organization boardroom today & to combat this high tide, a new wave of Mentors is trending these days, where every other person is projecting itself to be a self-proclaimed mentor capable of enabling businesses & professionals achieve overnight success. Despite of lack of credentials to…
Strengths Balancing for SoloPreneurs
a conversation with Amy King & Polly Chandler Our wtf collaborators Amy King, Brand Strategist & Polly Chandler, Strengths-Based Leadership Development Coach sat down for a mini coaching session with Polly on Amy’s current leadership challenges in her business. They offered to share the experience with our readers in the hopes that it empowers you […]
The Main Reasons Why Business Projects Fail
If we are going to stem the tide of failed projects, we need to get an understanding of the common reasons why business projects fail. Here are some of the more common reasons, and what can be done to mitigate them. Depending on which research article you look at, anywhere … Read More
What Leaders Can Learn from Playing Video Games: Why Excellence is a Mystery
Be it Angry Birds or Galaga, Fallout or Call of Duty, knowing what good likes like is pretty easy. You gain an achievement, rack up three stars or land on a leaderboard. In the pre-social gaming days, it was a local leaderboard, the one on the game you were playing at Shakey’s Pizza during lunch from your sys op job on a HP 3000. Today your achievements are splattered across screens around the world. Good is easy to find, excellence not so much.
AgendaShift in action – IT Ops
Following the recent introduction of Kanban to the Internet Hosting Group (basically what we would refer to as an IT ops function in the Kanban community) of a client, I wanted to test out a new tool from Mike Burrows called AgendaShift.
Kanban from the Inside: Customer Focus, Flow, Leadership – 4 to 6 of Kanban Method’s nine values
Excerpts from chapters 4 to 6 from my book, Kanban from the Inside.
