We are surrounded by everyday case-studies of agile. I was driving to the freeway the other day and a set of traffic lights were out, flashing red, which everyone had to treat as a four-way-stop-sign.  You know the deal – traffic was backed up a long way in all directions as cars took it in turns to proceed across one at ... Read More »

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Here are a couple of short videos which give a great summary overview of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe): Read More »

Here is a FANTASTIC series of videos (about 20-30 minutes in total) describing Microsoft’s Developer Divison’s pivot to AGILE and, in their own words, “the developer division isn’t a battleship that we have to steer and move. It’s three thousand canoes that we have to orchestrate, turn and maneuver”.  You can read more here:  Scaling Agile Across the Enterprise and here:  Engineering ... Read More »

Back in one of my favorite cities this week speaking.  Vancouver with gorgeous blue-sky weather, snow capped mountains with night-skiing visible from my downtown hotel window.  Just wish I had time to head up to Whistler for the weekend, but have to move on as I am doing so much speaking these days.   Agility is an increasingly hot topic (not ... Read More »

The Agile Chair: Agile Facilitation for Vistage/TEC Chairs – Developing Yor Brand as an Agile Chair Mike Richardson Vistage Chair (since 2003/3 Groups/50+ members) & Resource Speaker (since 2004/300+ Groups). Not all CEO Peer Groups are the same! The biggest responsibility I feel as a TEC/Vistage Chair is to do everything possible to assure that my members have the AGILITY to ... Read More »

I am dedicated to helping our global Vistage/TEC membership crack the code of agility as our community’s thought-leading expert.  It’s a tough topic to do with groups in the speaker session time available but I have iterated my approach and portfolio of topics over the years with great feedback.  Most of all I hear so many times from Chairs, unprompted by me, ... Read More »

This is my core topic (since 2004, delivered to 300+ groups of CEOs/senior executives globally so far, and counting) and remains my favorite.  We explore the challenges of leadership-agility, team-agility and organizational-agility, to be in traction on your desired trajectory with any business, with the enterprise-agility required to be avoiding wheel$pin.  Wheel$pin can cost you a fortune and potentially your prosperity ... Read More »

My star in the walk of fame at the annual Vistage Chair Convention.  12 years and counting as a Chair, plus 10 years and counting as a Resource-Speaker nationally and internationally, I have spoken to more than 250 groups globally and have Chaired  more than 500 group meetings and 1500 one-to-one coaching sessions with CEOs. I love the intersection between my ... Read More »

Dan Miller is one of my new best-friends.  He just spoke at my Vistage peer-groups of CEOs and Senior Executives about what it takes to be “Ultra-Human” and the members loved him.  Why?  Because with elegant simplicity which embeds complexity (see: 2 Camps for explanation of 2 kinds of simplicity) he has distilled the 6 factors which are most pivotal, revealing and ... Read More »