Influence of Leaders on Change
Influence of Leaders on Change By Emma Warren Introduction We…
Leadership
Managing a Remote Team with the Monday Report
Eight years ago in April 2012, I wrote a post about using the Monday Report approach to help me manage a large team at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. I think implementing the Monday Report will help you in these Coronavirus COVID-19 rem…
Leaders: Your journey through COVID-19
The fallout from this event will yield major change drivers for almost every company and industry. For the foreseeable future, the amount and types of change are not yet clear. Our recommendation is for leaders and their strategic thinkers to maximize…
7 Biggest Frustrations I Have Faced As A Lead Architect.
This blog lists the 7 biggest frustrations I have experienced in 20+ years of working with architecture and my approach to them. Continue reading →
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Leadership versus Governance
@j2bryson has commented on her blog about the fate of Google’s Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC), to which she had been appointed.She argues that the people who were appointed to the ATEAC were selected because they were “promine…
How your organization can achieve the ambidextrous advantage
Organizational resilience is emerging as a key source of competitive advantage in the age of hyper-competition and disruption. A new breed of leaders understands that winning requires being ambidextrous—the ability to embrace both speed/creativity and scale/productivity. In their Executive Update “Ambidextrous Organizations: How to Embrace Disruption and Create Organizational Advantage,” Cutter Consortium Senior Consultants Wilhelm Read more
An Idea for Creating a Change-Welcoming Culture: Intrapreneurship
By taking a human-centric approach — involving people and winning their loyalty — it becomes easier for organizations to identify and drive tough changes within a company. In their article Transforming Change into Trust in the Digital Era, Jagdish Bhandarkar and Namratha Rao offer an example of how one Fortune 100 company was quite successful in Read more
Finding, Acquiring and Retaining Talent
The session format had a panel of HR and Talent Recruitment leaders answering questions and providing guidance on the current employment market. The questions posed were very interesting focusing on the fundamental challenges Technology Leaders face …
QUTE: Enterprise Space and Time
Here’s another pair of glasses with which to look at organisations. It can be used either together with the Essential Balances or with the Productive Paradoxes, or on its own. For those new to my “glasses” metaphor, here’s a quick intro. The Glasses Metaphor As I’m sceptical about the usefulness of methodologies, frameworks and best […]
Form Follows Function on SPaMCast 467
It’s time for another appearance on Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast. This week’s episode, number 467, features Tom’s excellent essay on value (value is one of those simple-seeming, but complex concepts). Jeremy Berriault‘s QA corner covers testing in difficult circumstances. I bat cleanup with a Form Follows Function segment discussing my post […]
Management, Simple and Wrong – Semantics, Systems, and Self-Correction
Simple responses to complex situations are both seductive and dangerous. The difficulty in juggling lots of variables tempts us to employ abstraction so as to avoid being overwhelmed. Abraham Maslow’s observation, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail”, applies. […]
You can’t always get what you want…
You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes well you just might find You get what you need When it comes to systems, you can’t always get what you want, but you do get what you design (intentionally or not), whether it’s what you need or not. In other words, the […]