“We made a mistake. They are going to hate me tomorrow,” he said. Imagine a room with 28 EU diplomats, twice that many specia...
Several weeks ago, almost 100 people answered to my call for beta readers for my new book. That was far more than I had expected. However...
CEO's should not be Chief Executive Officers. They should be Creative Ecosystem Organizers. I am now officially the new CEO of ...
I remember well that I hated management, many years ago. I hated checking whether people had done what I told them to do. I hated doing p...
The original meaning of the word “management” is taking care of horses. I think some teams are like race horses, bred and nurtu...
What does it mean for a leadership practice to be Agile? FedEx days? Yes. Open Door policy? No. Moving Motivators? Yes. Time clocks? No! ...
At the ALE2011 conference in Berlin I organized an open space session about Concrete Practices for Agile Managers. For almost an hour at ...
I was reading Jerry Weinberg’s book Becoming a Technical Leader last week, and I came across his advice to start a journal and write fo...
What are the best practices for Agile managers? Which recurring tasks should managers put on their task lists? Yes I know, there is no su...
And here's another video of a talk I did at the Norwegian Developers Conference. This talk is about managing and leading self-organiz...
Leaders in a team are sometimes called “Leads” or “Chiefs,” like technical leads, project leads, chief programmers, and chief arc...
Leadership is a term used by many, but sometimes understood by only a few. Again and again I feel compelled to question ideas about leade...