In football, the team that wins is the one that gets the ball in the other team’s goal most times. Not the one that runs the most. What matters most is what is happening to the ball. So, we need to watch the ball, not the player. Business is no different. In Knowledge Work what …
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When working with a flow-based Kanban system there are a few statements that I would suggest most teams should bear in mind. One of my Kanban class attendees labelled these as “Jose’s Rules for Flow” Whilst I wouldn’t go so far as to say these are hard and fast rules, they are some suggestions for …
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We put leaders and mavericks on a pedastal, but Derek Sivers shows us that being the leader is not enough. A leader is nothing without followers. Watch the Dancing Guy demonstrate this and see what you learn.
During the Summer of 2017, I went to the famed land of theme parks and queuing that is Orlando. Of course, you can pay a little extra to avoid the wait — which also impacts the size of the queues. You find times where even this doesn’t help though or you’ve used up your allowance for the …
Practice! Practice! Practice! We know that the only way to really master new knowledge is by practising it for a substantial period of time. This is the most crucial statement in the Agile Manifesto: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. But, “doing” is not everything. …
What do you think is the relationship between Happiness and Success? Earlier this year I read Shawn Anchor’s “The Happiness Advantage”. Apart from being an entertaining read, it’s a real eye-opener on how back to front we have got the Success and Happiness relationship. There are cultural blocks we have in place that hamper our …
In practically every training class and consultancy work we do in Actineo there are two ideas that someone will bring up at some point: Ticket size matters Tickets need to be of the same size To me, those are two myths. I tend to argue that “ticket size does NOT matter“, although what I really …
I went on an exploration trip to my first Happy Workplaces conference that took place in London on 21–22 Jun 2018. Andy de Vale had attended the 2017 conference and he came back praising the conference. So, Jean-Paul Bayley and I decided to join the 2018 conference and see what was being shared. The first …
Following my previous Anti-Patterns of Training post, here are more mistakes trainers can make. When viewed through the lens of Sharon Bowman’s Training from the BACK of the Room! we see that these go against how brain science tells us we learn best.
Gojko Adzic and Christian Hassa did a keynote for Playcamp 2016 in which they looked at some tools for Impact Mapping. In the preamble to the tools they showed this to help people understand the “Why” of Impact Mapping: AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO This is your challenge. Share this page with people you think will find …
