How to Paint the World
I’m painting our house and I’m doing it the agile way. I might call it Agile Painting, or Painting 3.0.
“Which tool is the best?” (Your brain!)
Last Wednesday, during my “Create Kanban Systems” webinar, one of the attendees asked me about the best tool for creating Kan...
Self-Change
I recently enjoyed a chat with Doug Kirkpatrick, one of the advocates of self-management, and I had a great meeting with Harvard Business...
My Improved Travel Checklist
Last week in London, I wanted to shoot a video, but it appeared that I had left my camera’s memory cards at home. On my previous tr...
Successes and Failures are Illusions
In my talks around the world, I emphasize the need to run management experiments and I offer examples of interesting ideas that worked we...
How to Measure Your Team’s Performance: The Scoreboard Index
How do you measure performance?
How can you visualize improvement?
I designed a simple new practice for measuring and visual...
The Four Whys
I’m sure you recognize the problem. You’re nose-deep in some activity that takes ten times longer than expected, and suddenly...
Read a Book! Or Two.
I started running. Again.
But unlike previous (failed) attempts, this time, I want to do it right. This time, I intend to learn. T...
Really, Can You Be Agile and Not Disciplined?
Last week, it happened again. On Facebook I posted a screenshot of the huge checklist that I use as a quality assurance gate for my book ...
Combine Your Weaknesses with Your Strengths
I have two major weaknesses. (Well, actually many more, but this should be a blog post, not a book.) My first weakness is I hate sports. ...
My Happiness Index Is Dead
The more I think about the happiness index, the more I think it’s broken. We should change it into an improvement index. Today I was ve...
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