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…

You can read pretty much any article on leadership and team culture these days and they all say the same thing… “Surround yourself with the best people so you can raise your game and become even better.” I’ve been stymied by this statement over the past few years because this statement suggests that you must be in arms reach of these people all day long, interacting with them on a daily basis and collectively focused…

It’s easy to play the blame game. I did this because someone else did this and it’s not my fault. I’m not going to try to fix these bugs because no one else is working on their list. I told everyone what would happen and now here we are. Not my idea and yet here we are. It’s a whole other game to take the hit and keep on moving. That wasn’t the best call…

When you have a team of great leaders and you are charged with leading them, are you really leading them? Do they need someone to lead them? Isn’t the objective that they become great leaders so they don’t need to be lead? Perhaps then as the role of leadership evolves it moves from leading – where we work with our team on daily tasks providing constant reinforcement and direction to mentoring where we take a…