Why Google is an Epic Digital Company (and why you want to be just like them)

Google is an open book about pretty much everything they do. You can learn to hire, train, and retain employees the Google way at re:Work. They share, in no uncertain terms, everything about their culture, hiring practices, management, and bias education (or re-education as the case may be). You can build software like Google. It’s Continue

When Agile becomes (Fr)Agile, or Why You Need to Think of Agile Like Pants

So, you’re driving down the street. A stoplight comes. Red. You find yourself behind a ’93 Tercel. Well, you think it’s a ’93 Tercel. Truth is, you can’t quite tell because 98% of the back of the car is completely covered with bumper stickers. Now, bumper stickers aren’t bad. In many cases, they’re downright poignant Continue

Stop Trying to Check the ‘Agile’ Box

Yeah, we’ve been doing the Agile thing for awhile. We get it. Nah, we’re not doing planning meetings. We know where we’re at. Retrospectives? They take too much time. We’ve got this. We know Agile. When you start to hear things like this, someone’s checked the Agile box and moved on. If you’re saying things Continue

How Corporate Learning Ecosystems Predict Future Corporate Agility

The survival of any company depends on its ability to respond to changing circumstances, in other words to learn from the market ecosystem and change based on that learning. Establishing continuous, data driven learning methods within teams and ecosystems is a powerful leading indicator of future agility and corporate performance. Most learning methods employed today Continue