Avoiding Delegation Theater with the Team Empowerment Map​

Delegation Theater: “you’re empowered as long as you make the decision I’d make, or you do the task the way I’d do it.” A leader… Read More

Too many meetings?

It might be a symptom of a deeper issue. Our big-company clients all complain about too many meetings. Their calendars are packed. Trying to schedule… Read More

Reverse Your Thinking to Reveal Hidden Solutions​

Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s lifelong business partner at the investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, was famous for his powerful mental models and clear thinking. One… Read More

Product Management for Internal Teams

We recently talked with a leader at a company that had invested in extensive training from a well known product training company on product discovery… Read More

Make the Right Things Easy

Humans are like water—we gravitate towards the path of least resistance. Put a bunch of humans together in a team or an organization, and that… Read More

How to Get Useful Feedback on a Work-in-Progress​​

A few years ago, Peter was working on a big presentation. The way he tells it, he spent several late nights tweaking the deck to… Read More

5 Ways to Get More Participation in Your Meetings

It’s a question we hear all the time: “How can I get my team to speak up more in our meetings?” Lackluster participation in… Read More

Which One of Many Should You Start With?

So, you’ve got a promising big idea that you want to test in small way? Maybe you’re thinking about adopting a new process in your… Read More

Can an Agile-Waterfall Hybrid Even Work?

To many in the Agile community, especially those of us who’ve been around since the early-adopter days, “Hybrid Agile” is another way to say “not… Read More

3 Ways Multitasking Destroys Complex Problem-Solving

Have you looked at your colleagues’ calendars lately? Or your own? Meeting blocks stacked on meeting blocks. Twenty browser tabs showing twenty different trains of… Read More