Excellence through recognition
I've never seen a company that OVER recognized their employees.
Not even once.
Recognition is not just about
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"How to tackle executives being out of the loop?"
Emma asks the question: "How to tackle executives being out of the loop?"
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Agile is not your gas pedal, it's your steering wheel
Agile is one of the most misunderstood concepts in business.
Many people think it's your gas pedal ⛽
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Don't delegate because you hate the work
Don't delegate the work you hate.
3 techniques to create leverage instead:
In trying to avoid overload, Leaders
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3 Types of Leverage
I used to spend hours polishing unimportant work 🤦🏻
Does "Filing the best tax return in history" pay off
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Managers love to talk about focus. But have you seen their calendars?
You know how they are:
💯% rammed full.
🚫 No space to think + process.
🏃♂️Charging from one meeting to another.
The problem
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Culture is what you do.
Ignore your "values" posters on the wall.
We demonstrate culture with behavior:
In your company, it's
Your org has dead canaries in the coal mine.
Yet, you're still focused on improving Canary resilience,
Instead of removing those toxic fumes.
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The one thing nobody copies from Spotify
An overlooked aspect of how we worked during my 4 years there
Transparency was off the charts. 📈
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Overloaded Backlogs are a sign of a weak Strategy
We're drowning because we lack the scaffolding to say no, or not right now. 🚷
It starts at the
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Why does everything take so damn long?!
For one of my clients - all projects took 36+ months! 🕗
We reduced it by 90% with an approach most
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From chaos to clarity: This model keeps my clients organized as they scale.
As companies grow, deciding where to focus and what to fix becomes a trickier question.
Having a Strategy only matters
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Without Focus, Agile teams are as helpful as Ashtrays on a bicycle.
Without Focus, Agile teams are as helpful as Ashtrays on a bicycle.
Yet most Companies invest in:
More People
Working
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Flight Levels - The one concept I use in all my work
For the last 10+ years, I've designed organizations and coached leaders.
Both as an employee and external coach
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"What tool should we use? Jira? Miro?"
The most common question I'm asked.
We have 100s of projects and dependencies, and we have to report
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I had a client attempting 400 projects at once
I had a client attempting 400 projects at once.
They showed me a vast wall with all the index cards
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You can't see clearly from ONE point of view!
You can't see clearly from ONE point of view!
As a result, we miss lots of information.
Here
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Simple Product Trio Checkin rhythm, we built at Spotify.
Even great teams can get off track
We used this rhythm to catch things before they went off the rails.
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Top 5 Change Management Traps (and how to avoid them)
1. Not talking to those affected (AKA Ivory tower design)
Solves only management problems, makes more work no gain for
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You'll do almost anything for velocity. Except actually focus. 🎯
Despite wanting to be more productive, few achieve it.
Even fewer do it at Scale. More familiar to hear, "
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It's 2023, and I'm tired of debates about estimation and story points.
My controversial take:
Scenario: You have a 5-hour piece of work.
Can you sit down and work for 5 hours
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3 mistakes Leads make when starting a new role
(I've made all of these)
1) Thinking we understand after the first week. 🤔
The situation is always more
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When I was 34 years old, I learned a life lesson I'll never forget.
I was stuck and actively struggling to make progress in my career. Frustrated and finding it hard to ignore the
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Reflections on 4 years at Spotify
I spent 4.5 years at Spotify, 🎵🎵
Four reflections on my experiences.
1️⃣ Every Company has problems, even your heroes.
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