The Daily WTF

MAY 12, 2021

Take a second to do an exercise splitting society into those that you should be “real” to/with and those that you should stay “phony” to/with. But here’s simple take: When management and senior leadership view themselves as [libertarian?] They wrote five books on leadership damn it! Here’s my take: Be Real (to and with).

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 31, 2015

Previously, I wrote about the power that having a weight loss goal had in driving my choices with regard to diet and exercise. While I like broccoli, oranges, apples, and asparagus, none of them gives me the emotional satisfaction of cheese or chocolate. My weight (a fact) drives the need for change. Write them down.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2024

As a learning exercise, it is fantastic. None was free, and each experiment cost seven to eight figures. * * * There are a few stones I’ve had on the shelf for many, many years. When setting out to do something different, map out the learning agenda that will put you in the position of “freely exercising authority”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 17, 2016

Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership has been tracking his productivity for around fifty years now. The other “tool” that helps stay productive: exercise–preferably a good hike in nature. She also uses Google reminders for the occasional on-the-fly “thing to remember” to pop up at a designated time.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 27, 2021

And none of us should settle for feeling stressed at work all the time. If you’re not getting regular exercise, make that a daily part of your routine. How can I start dealing with it? A little surge of stress can be good—the kind that gets you in gear to meet a deadline—but chronic stress is debilitating. Get Active.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

And none of us should settle for feeling stressed all the time. If you’re not getting regular exercise, make that a daily part of your routine. Contact leadership coach Joel Garfinkle for more support in reducing stress and changing your life. How can I start dealing with it? Get Active. Is stress holding you back at work?

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scruminc

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Or, leadership may come armed with a list of their top priorities (note the plural) sometimes numbering around 100. . None of them are perfect. Prioritization is not an exercise, it’s a chance to align the entire organization. . A list like that doesn’t make much sense because when everything is a top priority then nothing is.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2012

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, that’s what! Coffee – shower – exercise – the news. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! None of your business! ! “What keeps you up at night?”

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

When you take part in gossip you do none of these things. Remember that those individuals that will gossip to you, will also gossip about you… Many would suggest that the thought of eliminating gossip in the corporate world is an exercise in naivete. Michelle said: RT @mikehenrysr: RT @mikemyatt Workplace Gossip [link] #LeadChange [.]

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Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In this blog, we take a look at why successful digital transformation of CI/OT requires that senior leadership work together to ensure that security transformation happens in unison with the OT modernization. To be fair, a lot has happened over the last couple of decades to address the gaps of CI security.

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Exadel

AUGUST 31, 2022

While company culture certainly grows organically, leadership plays an essential role in nurturing this growth. It’s clear that leadership’s values, and the continual alignment of decision-making to those values, is a large component of what becomes a company’s culture. Sounds easy, right? 1) Go All In and Maintain Delicate Balance .

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James Shore

MAY 5, 2024

I led them through an exercise: “Imagine we’ve built the best product engineering organization in the world. Blissfully, none of those categories were “productivity.” I was to present mine to the full Leadership team at the end of April. Substitute leadership.” What does that look like?” Bullet un-dodged.

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James Shore

JUNE 16, 2021

Instead of having to go through a yearly planning exercise like the rest of Marketing, she got permission to own your team’s financials. None of our direct competitors have anything like that, and the big players charge two arms, a leg, and half your torso in professional services fees. Hanna purses her lips. It’s a big bet,” she says.

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General Leadership

JUNE 21, 2013

Sadly, none of this is even close to what the citizen leaders who founded our nation had in mind at our country’s inception when they spoke of our fundamental rights as American citizens. Invoking the Greek idea of eudemonia, they were challenging us to pursue a deeper source of satisfaction by living well and doing well.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He is reminding us that true leadership requires a degree of selflessness. IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Infrastructure Consulting IF YOU WILL LEAD recognizes that your personal and professional success depends, in large part, on your ability to effectively and powerfully lead.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

None of us like feeling like outcasts, least of all when we go to work. In this article we take a look at three of the team building exercises which produce the best results in terms of raising morale amongst your staff. Creating a happier and more productive work environment should be a constant consideration for any good manager.

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Haft of the Spear

MARCH 8, 2021

If the “wake-up call” associated with both the sovereign-state and non-state-actor threats was not ringing with the events of The Cuckoo’s Egg , the pounding on the door by hotel security was Eligible Receiver 97 (ER97): a no-notice interoperability exercise that had both physical and cyberspace components to it.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Leadership Role #5: Managing the Action Cycle. Poor communication of expectations is a frequent source of breakdown in leadership. Though leaders often manage certain aspects of teams and projects, when a leader delegates authority, the competence of management is exercised not by the leader but by someone else.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The classic reference case was usually some report people spent hours crafting every month that they distributed to dozens of managers and executives, none of whom read it because they didn't know what it was for. A working foundation of facts is better than none, but facts are of limited value without context.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2014

And none of it is our fault. Communication Skills Can Increase Your Leadership Credibility. We’re left with restricted communication and creativity, failed relationships, and lost profit. We try to attend carefully to what’s being said. Yet our pesky brains do some pretty sophisticated stuff, all without our conscious consent: they.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2014

And none of it is our fault. Communication Skills Can Increase Your Leadership Credibility. We’re left with restricted communication and creativity, failed relationships, and lost profit. We try to attend carefully to what’s being said. Yet our pesky brains do some pretty sophisticated stuff, all without our conscious consent: they.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

None would step outside the strict definition of what they understood their job requirements to be, even in situations where it was clear they were the only person with the business knowledge, client contacts or code familiarity to solve a problem. Knowledge sharing exercises were canceled due to last minute "customer emergencies".

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 30, 2017

I’ve done a lot of values clarification exercises with my clients over the years, and I think I’ve got it narrowed down to a few things that are really important to me, you know, values wise, but as far as my frequency, my one overriding value or principle goes, well, that I’m not too sure about, but I’ll sure give it a try.”

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 30, 2017

I’ve done a lot of values clarification exercises with my clients over the years, and I think I’ve got it narrowed down to a few things that are really important to me, you know, values wise, but as far as my frequency, my one overriding value or principle goes, well, that I’m not too sure about, but I’ll sure give it a try.”

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The Empowered Buisness

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Yet, in my 30 years experience of working with leadership teams and companies, the terms “vision,” “mission” and “values” are THE most overused, misunderstood and abused words in the business community today. While none of us can guarantee our future, owning your future will make it a reality. The company?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

might never know that tweets were once an exercise in self-editing, thanks to Twitter’s new feature — Twitter Notes — that would support the publishing of long-form content on the platform. Sarah has the story.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

In work shaping, a small, experienced team defines the key elements of the project, at exactly the right level of abstraction, with enough detail that the dev team knows what to build, but not so much that the team is can’t exercise its skill and imagination in crafting the solution.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MAY 14, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Allen Holub, discuss what organizations get wrong about Agile. Intro: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy high performing software teams. None of this can work. Episode 44. Transcript.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). When they are compelled to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering…two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). When they want to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering… two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day.

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Gorilla Logic

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The passion, dedication, and leadership never ceases to impress us. This exercise requires having all of the teams present at kickoff meetings and stories pointed prior to the PI Planning. Each space had its problems, but none more challenging than San Jose. We cannot say enough about our amazing product management team.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Mentorship and leadership development. Ivory Tower academic exercise. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). My analysis: To facilitate enhancement, focus upon quality time with the family, hobbies, reading, exercise, gardening and entertaining guests. Running the business. Business development. Body of Knowledge.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

In some organizations, this was considered low-skill work—just a mechanical translation exercise. All the activity; none of the results. Next, software architects would read the requirements documents and create detailed design documents specifying every component of the system and how they related to each other.

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The Cipher Brief

JANUARY 21, 2020

The USG exercised a major role in preserving industry and infrastructure during times of economic difficulties, most dramatically in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, when the U.S. Maintaining leadership requires huge research investments. Nokia spent $16.6 billion acquiring Alcatel–Lucent in 2016.

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The Cipher Brief

JULY 25, 2022

Even though he knew that meeting with the Saudi leadership would cost him politically at home and possibly upset several senior members of his own administration, he nevertheless went to Jeddah because he rightly put the trip in its proper strategic context. leadership to support and enable these invaluable military initiatives.

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