People Managers worry about the people, the culture, the team, the what and the how of what they are delivering. Process Managers worry about how and when of what they are delivering, the methodology, the steps and the outcome. We are all one or the other, depending on the project sometimes we are both sometimes we flip between projects on which one we must be. But we are all predisposed to leaning to one side or…

I once hired someone to work with me on a few projects but we never had the chance to actually, side-by-side work together during our tenure together. They left before that could happen – I called it the Accidental Exit. Sure we talked, discussed progress on projects and we might have been on the same project but in varying different roles, but we were never in the trenches together for a project. When they left…

The Watercooler still exists – the forum for idle chitchat that really serves no purpose except to highlight the ups and downs of company politics. We might not physically gather around it anymore and instead do so virtually in Facebook, Twitter, SLACK and other tools that allow us to spend the day messaging on such topics. It’s hard to resist that swirling vortex of negative energy and sometimes we don’t even know we have succumbed to…

I’ve been toying with this idea for almost 6 months now and finally completed a Slideshare presentation on why I think we (all of us) need to start looking at transitioning from delivering presentations in our work to delivering stories. It sounds simple, but a quick glance at the last presentation you gave might yield a different story (no pun intended) where the intended output was more facts and presentation (i.e., firehose) and less connection…

First to finish your code. First to tweet. First to identify the problem. First to break the build. First to complete your tasks. First to volunteer. First to order. And simply because you are not first, does not mean your opinion, your idea and your suggestions are not welcome.  In fact they are probably more welcome and needed at a time when not everybody in the room agrees with what is being discussed.  Or perhaps…