Live Your Message

I try to practice what I preach.

I think it’s the only sustainable way to grow a business.

When a consultant says “management should trust people to self-organize”, it is wise to wonder about any forms of command-and-control the consultant might apply to his business.

When an organization promotes Scrum or Kanban, it is useful to seek any evidence that the organization is indeed using Scrum or Kanban to manage its own workflows.

When a speaker promotes complexity or systems thinking, you would be wise to wonder about the nature of his presentation style and personal communication, and how this affects a greater whole.

My own goal is to help people be happier in their jobs. Therefore you could ask yourself whether I’m happy in my own job (I am!), and what I do for the people I work with.

The proof is in the pudding.

Yesterday someone in Finland asked me, “Our sales team sells products to customers that I don’t want to use myself in our organization. What should I do?”

I said, “Maybe you should quit your job.”