by Mike Edwards | Sep 4, 2013 | Agile, Behaviour, Conferences, Responsibility, The Leadership Gift
The concept of dedicated to one task at a time is not supported. They won’t change. Because the CEO manages with fear! Our egos are bigger and more than the company goals. My leadership team no longer believes in it. My manager has to assign work to the team....
by Mike Edwards | Aug 8, 2013 | Behaviour, People, Responsibility, The Leadership Gift
In my last post I talked about managers and front line workers confronting themselves. I want to share a little bit of my story to help illustrate further. In a former life as a manager of a development team I was faced with many things I believed were impeding...
by Mike Edwards | Aug 6, 2013 | Behaviour, People, Responsibility
How many times have you heard management say “if they would just adopt that Agile thing it will fix the problems!” At Agile 2013 Christopher Avery provided insight into this management mindset during his talk. It’s not hard to find organizations...
by Mike Edwards | Aug 2, 2013 | Behaviour, People, Responsibility
What do you do for fun when you leave work? There are so many choices such as volunteering, exercise, music or just some quiet gardening in the yard? What happens when you’re not enjoying the activity? In some cases you might stop doing the activity. In...
by Mike Edwards | Jul 29, 2013 | Behaviour, People, Responsibility, The Leadership Gift
Do you think it’s possible to create a truly flat organizational structure? What if you could eliminate the need for reporting relationships? Everyone dreads the annual performance review process so get rid of it! I’ve talked with many organizations who...
by Mike Edwards | Jul 9, 2013 | Behaviour, Compliance, People, Responsibility
After a number of years of talking about joining the Leadership Gift program I finally did it! I’m very excited about being on this journey. The Leadership Gift is a program led by Christopher Avery as a result of decades of research resulting in the...
