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Content Sharing and Attribution Isn’t the Wild Wild West

My interaction with an “ally” when asking him to credit my work where he was posting about it — spoiler alert, I did not get credit and he was not an ally.


March 29, 2020 0

Name Your Trigger – Team Vulnerability Activity

Team activity to establish trust and get teams through the storming phase together.


March 26, 2019 0

Chapter 1 – What are Agile, Lean, and Lean Startups and How Do They Foster Innovation?

If you are an agile software development practitioner or have worked in the industry around these practices, you are free to skip ahead. This chapter is meant as an introduction to all things agile, lean, and product/service innovation for those who are unfamiliar with the terms, values, practices, and philosophy. It is a tough chapter…
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April 19, 2020 0

Why being replaceable is a GOOD thing

Being replaceable in work may not seem like a good thing. But I definitely think it can be. Those who disagree tend to think about replaceability in a negative sense. Who wants to think there is someone else out there that can do your job as well (or better) than you? A lot of this comes from a scarcity mindset: that there are only a set number of jobs and once they are taken that’s it. But new jobs are created all the time as long as there is a case that demands it.


December 31, 2018 1

The Surprising Truth About What De-Motivates Us

I’m a competitive person by nature – everyone would tell you so. I’ve had jobs that give me bonuses based on how well I do compared to others, how well the company does in the market, and how ‘hard’ I work, so to say, based on some arbitrary metrics. I hadn’t thought about bonuses as being demotivating before because I like to compete (and win). In some of my experience they have driven behaviors of lower collaboration and higher negative competition where the only winner is the company itself and not the individual employee doing the work (and the company can only win in that situation for so long before people get frustrated and either leave or stop trying). Doesn’t sound like the ideal situation.


August 20, 2018 1