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Reading Time: < 1 minuteW. Edwards Deming is credited with saying, “a bad system will beat a good person every time.” 

Reading Time: 4 minutesNo, not the book by Orwell. This post is about a prioritization methodology from the year 1984. That’s when the first Franklin Quest day planner was introduced to the world with the classic layout:

Reading Time: 5 minutesAgile, Lean & Exceptional Value Delivered in Sweden Culture eats everything for breakfast, lunch and dinner!!!

Reading Time: 7 minutesUsing the Flow Leadership Framework to heal broken projects

Reading Time: 5 minutesMastering the Transformation Basics is Simple, it’s just not Easy! Back on 09 Sept 2020 … I got some really great feedback from Alistair Cockburn, so that is integrated that into this post … thanks Alistair!

Reading Time: 2 minutesRon Jeffries once quipped: “Scaled Agile must be simple — or it isn’t Agile.”

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s great that Simon Sinek, in a video from a few years back, agrees that Vision comes first. He defines Vision as a “just cause,” something for which you are willing to sacrifice. He also describes the Why as the foundation of a house (i.e. its history) and the house to be built on top […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 4R Model is the basis for ALL religions & philosophies and the 1st three “R’s” (Right Truth, Right Values & Attitudes and Right Actions) are from the early 1980’s with the 4th “R” (Right Results) being added in the late 90’s. In the marketplace of ideas in the relativistic culture in which we live, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt never ceases to amaze me how something so simple and powerful is routinely misunderstood. But, then again, the predecessor to this was a bell-curve distribution.

Reading Time: 2 minutesPeter Drucker has a very famous quote about the “three things that happen naturally in an organization are: