Archives November 2022

Do your clients make unsolicited birthday videos for you?

Dr. Cherry Vu ‘s do.

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You can’t build teams. Only teams can build teams. People aren’t bricks.
We can facilitate, support, coach, advise  … but the team builds the team. They’re grownup peers.

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Organisations expend so much money and effort on measuring and reviewing people like work machines, when it could be better spent in supporting them in their own self improvement. People know what they want and need to be better at, especially those working in a healthy team.

I’m reminded of nations that use guns and bombs to “liberate” countries instead of winning hearts and minds with healthcare and education.

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if your service providers give you poor service what can you do to fix them? I take a systemic view: it is seldom solely the service provider’s fault.

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Information/Visualisation/Transparency is great, if you do something with it. Information has no value until it is acted on. This concept is expressed in many different ways that all essentially mean the same thing;

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When I started out in consulting, I thought I had to show how much I know.

That has several negative effects, but there were even worse dysfunctions lurking.

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It’s time to resurrect an old character from my IT Skeptic blog, the troubadour Rambling Kid Realitsm [bonus points for those who can spot the classic comedy reference], who has changed his name to Rambling Sid Open-o, to bring back his old hit, “Changin'”

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Here’s an idea for thinking differently about Backlog.

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Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.
– Karl Popper

If one person is to blame for shareholder capitalism, it’s not Jack Welch, it’s Milton Friedman.

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