I used to think that if only I got the right job, at the right place, working for the right CEO, that all of a sudden, all of the “crazy organization” stuff — if you’ve worked for a large organization, you darn well know what I mean — would go away. Bzzt! Wrong answer. In […]
Team Trust: Leadership Not As Important As You Think?
I thought I’d share something interesting about trust among teams based on research I recently did. Team trust level is something that gets pooh-poohed by those who scorn “touchy feely” stuff, but it’s critical to any real success. Just about every two years, I’ve done research about enterprise project management, and I’ve just gotten back […]
Is Lean Startup The Future of The Workplace?
It’s kind of like an orange juice commercial from the 70s: “Lean Startup: It’s Not Just For Startups Anymore.” Or that’s how it seemed to me on the first day of the Lean Startup Conference. Though many observers, including myself, have urged the adoption of Lean Startup (and startup principles in general) into the workplaces […]