This month’s Harvard Business Review captures the agility challenge for CEOs, Executives and their teams these days – What Great CEOs Do Differently (May-June 2017), resulting from a 10 year study called the CEO Genome Project, identifying the specific attributes that differentiate high-performing CEOs. Our most important discovery was that successful chief executives tend to demonstrate four specific behaviors that ... Read More »
Great to be working again with my good friend Marvin Dejean who is an emerging thought-leader on design thinking, which goes hand in hand with agile-thinking: The Focused, Fast & Flexible Manifesto. In particular, we are working together with more and more Boards to help them be an AGILE Board. Read More »
With the board of a bank, after dinner, we did the Marshmallow Challenge. Everyone had a blast. The following morning we debriefed and then played the video here: Marshmallows Reveal Secrets of Agile Teamwork vs Waterfall Teamwork. They really got it, understanding how easily and unconsciously we default into “Waterfall”, burning too much time building tall spaghetti structures, without testing & verifying as ... Read More »
Great to be back in Haiti Read More »
Great to be back here. Read More »
I was glad to be allowed into Vistage Chair Ben Dominitz’s CEO Group in Charlotte! It was great as I start my session in which we explore the complexity of enterprise-agility, which is why the majority can’t do it, by revealing the difference between elegant-simplicity which embeds complexity and stupid-simplicity which ignores complexity. Often called up by the KISS principle ... Read More »
First time here. Having a great time. Read More »
Michael Richardson Cracking the Agility Code