Category: General
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I am not your guru!
In the documentary, I Am Not Your Guru, released in 2016, Performance coach Tony Robbins proposes an interesting exercise. Imagine your life in the near future. If everything goes well in three years, how much will you make a year? Don’t read further until you have the figures. When you get the amount, multiply it…
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Closing Keynote at VoxxedDays Singapore
The recording of the closing keynote I delivered at VoxxedDays Singapore is published! Let me know what you think! I would be happy to deliver an improved version of this talk for you event 🙂
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The Podcast Experiment
I tried a new experiment last month! I recorded a few podcast episodes: The first one answers one important question: “How to form a team?” I recorded it with Valentin Yonchev and Matt Takane from the Red Hat Open Innovation Labs. The second one is a celebration of the availability of Changing Your Team From…
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The Audiobook is available!
In addition to electronic, paperback, hardcover, and team edition, Changing Your Team From The Inside is now available as an audiobook! Michael Ried did an excellent job in narrating the book. I was even caught listening to him forgetting that I was on a review mission 🙂 The book is available on the platform you…
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The Breakfast Huddle on Innovation Fatigue
While I was travelling to Singapore, I have been invited to discuss innovation with Eliott Danker on MoneyFM. Thanks to Eliott interviewing talent, we touched on a lot of different aspects: Innovation fatigue Sustainability Burnout Innovation and customer experience Team organization preventing people to innovate Inclusivity of different perspectives Management of talented individual Manager role…
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Theory X and Theory Y
I had the great pleasure to deliver the closing keynote of Voxxed Days Singapore. During the talk, Going Open, I introduced Douglas McGregor theories on human motivation and management that he developed at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1957. The assumption in Theory X is that workers are lazy; they dislike and don’t…
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Going Open – Closing Keynote
On May 31, 2019, I had the pleasure to deliver the closing keynote of Voxxed Days Singapore: Going Open! Thank you to all the participants and organizers for a fantastic event! I had the opportunity to sign my book, Changing Your Team From The Inside on the Red Hat booth, and to meet great people!…
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Ratings and Reviews
Ratings and reviews contribute significantly to the success of a book — not a rocket science fact. When we go to platforms like Goodreads, we choose our next book based on the category, the title, the cover, the abstract, AND the ratings and reviews! It seems that ratings and reviews account for a lot in…
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Agile Games New England 2019
In two previous posts, OKRs! OK What?, and The worst presentation ever, I covered sessions proposed during the Open Space on the third day of Agile Games 2019. In this post, I would like to highlight the other sessions in which I found interesting “nuggets”, to use a term that my friend and colleague, Matt…
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OKRs! OK What?
OKRs! OK, What? Joseph Contreras, Scrum Master at Fidelity, proposed this Open Space session on the third day of Agile Games 2019. Joseph invited the participants to contribute to a short presentation of what Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are. In a nutshell, Objectives are where we want to go, and Key Results tell us…
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The worst presentation ever
Last week, I attended Agile Games New England. The last day of the conference uses Open Space Technology which is the best way to organize and run a conference. With an Open Space, all attendees are active participants. They define the program and choose which sessions to contribute. They also have the freedom to leave…
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Version 2 of the book is available
It took a few month to get to the second version of the book, Changing Your Team From The Inside. The paperback version is available on Lulu and the electronic version is on Leanpub. The new version of the book will be available on Amazon in a few days, keep in mind that Amazon takes…