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When people waste my time, I can get really ticked off. I tell them: “Time is the only thing I can’t get more of. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.” I can get more money (though wasting that leaves me [...]

After chewing on it for a couple of years, this year I’m taking the Pervasive Leadership model I’ve been working on to a broader audience.  This is a leadership model for truly agile [...]

As I think back at the end of the year, I realize how much I have learned this year and how my perspective has changed or been enriched by my reading, training, and experiences this year.  Some [...]

There are not many great bosses.  Personally, since I know the origins of the term “boss,” I usually prefer the term “supervisor.” But, today, my task is to talk about one of my great bosses [...]

My generation was probably the first to be cautioned in high school that we needed to be lifelong learners.  At the time, the term was new, and I don’t know if it is in common parlance anymore, [...]

This blog is about re-patterning the human experience at work.  A few of the fundamental assumptions underlying these posts is that individuals have more control over their own work experience [...]

The other night I found myself talking with a couple of colleagues about a topic that catches my attention a lot lately: how we deal with failure. We were gathered around a tiny table at a local [...]

There are two interesting perspectives frequently brought into conversations regarding human systems: When a problem occurs, look to the system, not the individual. When a problem occurs, look to [...]

Is anyone afraid of change?  Why, what can take place without change?  What then is more pleasing to the universal nature?  And canst though take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change?  And [...]

The Scrum values are: Courage Focus Commitment Openness, and Respect To refresh my thinking on this topic, I recently turned to the Oxford English Dictionary. Courage originally referred to [...]