by Mike Edwards | Sep 3, 2023 | Leadership Weekly
You get on the stage, and ego rushes in to say, "Don’t mess up." That’s when the nerves would start to kick in. You’d know it as you’d likely see me pacing about if you were backstage with me. While I had nearly 35 years of experience...
by Mike Edwards | Aug 13, 2023 | Leadership Weekly
A software team once told me they spend two hours refreshing their testing regions daily. I asked if this situation seemed reasonable to them. “No, it’s a complete waste of time as it keeps us from working on the new features.” When asked why they...
by Mike Edwards | Aug 6, 2023 | Leadership Weekly
“The ginger beer is near the back of the store near the dog food.” I nearly fell over when my son, Scott, said this to me. The thing is, he’s gone blind in the past year and has only been in this store while blind. I asked him how he knew this. Scott...
by Mike Edwards | Jul 23, 2023 | Leadership Weekly
“You know what your problem is? You have too much money.” I explained, “What you’re doing is working, as evidenced by your profits and share value. So, you have no real reason to change. You can keep doing what you’re doing, and it’ll work … for now. After all, it did...
by Mike Edwards | Jul 2, 2023 | Leadership Weekly
While I tend to not get too hung up on language. However, I always try to improve my language to honour our differences and be more inclusive. For example, one of the phrases I’m trying to change is my habit of saying, “You guys.” It’s a long-standing habit of mine to...
by Mike Edwards | Jun 25, 2023 | Leadership Weekly
There isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t see an article about returning to the office. It’s become such an extensive discussion that we’ve even assigned the acronym “RTO.” Most articles I read explain how executives claim...
