When you go to fill the kettle up do you… Put in enough for merely your cup of tea – in and out as quick as possible? Or, fill it up all the way, someone else will use it and now they won’t have to wait for the water to boil. What’s the difference? One is focused on the user, the other is focused on the team. The better question is which one you would…

In sports, when you are trying to get the play out of your end and setup the team to score in the opposing end you are executing a breakout. A predetermined strategy where everyone knows what part they have in the play that if executed correctly should yield a goal (i.e., a win). A breakout requires a team to be working as one and a leader to set it up. The question becomes whether your…

I need to work on my titles – but you get the idea. Here is an article I wrote that identifies the real reason you aren’t hitting your goals and it’s much easier than you think. Your Routine is the Key to Achieving Your Goals

We all have our own definitions of success – what it is, where we want to go, how we want to get there? Boiled down – what is important to you to define yourself as successful? Is it the journey? Is it the ends justifying the means? Is it learning X before Y? Is it based on milestones in a certain amount of time? Is it learning a new language? Is it speaking at conferences…

The Connected Team isn’t the one with the latest tools that sync from phone to tablet to laptop in seconds. They aren’t the team that’s delivering on all of their sprints in rapid succession. They aren’t the team that sits side-by-side having lunch with each other each and every day of the week. These are all good things. But the Connected Team is the team that picks up where one leaves off, that understands the…