Will never die. It is one of the few vestiges, where you can go in, place your order and when you leave, it’s not the person who took your order who says thank you, but everyone behind the counter, each and every one of them saying thank you to you for purchasing their product. Run your business like the local pizza shop where everyone on your team recognizes how important the relationship of business to…
There is a familiar phrase that can crop up in meetings or discussions where people are frustrated with what is happening and not sure who to assign the work to. “Well, what do you do? Can’t you do it?” The problem with this statement is it puts the onus on your team members to justify their position when this is in fact not their job to do. You hired them, you brought them onto the…
If your team is closing all their stories and tasks on the last of the sprint you should consider moving your sprint duration to being one day. This sounds dumb right? It is. So is holding onto work that has no movement on it for two or three weeks and then magically closing everything on the last day. If your not sure if your team is guilty of this practice, check the work completed on…
In sports, passing back is one of the hardest skills to learn as you grow older. For years you’ve taught to push through, go forward, don’t stop, look up, look at the goal, etc, etc (enter all the sports here). But to get to the next level, you need to learn to pass backward. You need to use your team. If you look ahead and they are all busy, the person behind you is the…
Empire Building happens when we focus on building everything around us, getting all the right laptops and tablets, all the best tables, all the perks, all the bodies, all the chairs, all the everything that goes along with building an empire except doing the one thing that truly matters to building an empire. The requirements, i.e., the work that needs to be done, understanding the problem you are trying to resolve, realizing what order of…