Stuff we’ve been thinking lately
by Jennifer Riggins A workplace can’t continue to be black and white, right and wrong, only made up of good or bad behavior. Like the diverse mindset that’s necessary to innovation and eventual success, you can’t look at team collaboration and management as black and white. And it’d be ridiculous to just put on rose-colored glasses...
Read moreby Management 3.0 Facilitator Stefan Nüsperling “The primary focus of any manager should be to energize people,” emphasizes Jurgen Appelo in his book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders. One way to energize people is to stimulate interaction between individuals at the team level. But it is not always easy to have smooth...
Read moreby Marjan Venema What was your reaction to the 12 steps when you first saw them? Be honest now. I’m sure there were some steps that you felt totally comfortable with. Maybe you were even already practicing them and had a bit of an internal “pat on the back” celebration. I’m also pretty sure that...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins At Management 3.0, we’ve already shared how we’ve identified and developed our team’s three core values: Dare to be bold. Always be kind. Make it creative. You could argue that there are certain core values that all companies share or at least should share. But businesses are made of people and people are...
Read moreby Voranc Kutnik I live in Slovenia, a small country on the sunny side of the Alps. (Just to make it clear, Slovenia, not Slovakia.) Our small county has a population of only two million people and this fact has good and bad consequences. One of the good ones is that we all know each...
Read moreby Alexander Weinhard Working Out Loud starts with making your work visible in such a way that it might help others. When you do that — when you work in a more open, connected way — you can build a purposeful network that makes you more effective and provides access to more opportunities. John Stepper: The...
Read moreby G. John Cole However much you may love your work (or not), the daily slog can get us all down in the dark winter months. Dragging yourself out of bed before the sun has risen to scrape off the ice from your car windshield is no way to start the day. If you finish...
Read moreby Sergey Kotlov To begin with, you won’t find any mind-blowing discoveries here. All the lessons I’m going to share are well known and repeated multiple times in hundreds of articles and books. I knew them myself before. But I didn’t live them through. I could easily increase the number of lessons to ten, 15...
Read moreby Sam, Management 3.0 Team One of the most common things I hear when speaking to clients about whether or not to ask for feedback is that they’re afraid of the answers. These are people who want to improve and develop personally and professionally, yet they aren’t truly ready to deep dive into the unknown. And...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins We are kicking off 2017 with focusing on the success of your small business. Because, really, if you aren’t successful, you won’t be happy at work for long now, will ya? Plus pesky things like paying employees and providers are essential for meeting the bare minimum to then be able to look...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Wearing one of my many hats, I attend and speak at a lot of API (application programming interface) conferences. This aspect of the tech industry has a wonderful community — perhaps because it is just the tech that’s bringing people, services and especially other tech together. But these talks while always informative...
Read moreby Fabio Frascella Self organization is a highly recurrent topic when speaking about motivated and happy teams, and I’m a big fan of it. To some of us, it’s because of the sense of purpose, to others the cause of employee engagement and happiness. Whatever your reason is you will find something useful for you...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins One of the companies I worked for would offer us “surprise” half days on the days before Thanksgiving and Christmas. But once it happened one year, it was always assumed and we’d feel cheated if we didn’t get those days. Plus people who had already planned to take those days as vacation days...
Read moreby Josh Briggs There are many companies that still use fear as the primary driver for employee performance. Morale at these places is low, stress is high, and just about every employee has the LinkedIn Jobs Page opened on a ready-to-minimize window. I have worked at a few of these organizations. The main thing I...
Read moreby Mila Sanchez I’ve worked my fair share of jobs and I’ve felt differently about each one. Some I liked, some I tolerated, and some work I downright hated. One thing that’s been universal though is that I’ve never felt fully satisfied. It’s not that I didn’t like the work, it just never felt like...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins As Jurgen’s blogpost last week already talked about, the we have discovered our three core values: Dare to be bold. Always be kind. Make it creative. In the blogpost, we added our own improv photos of what we see as the we thought symbolized “Dare to be bold.” and “Make it creative.” (Of course,...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo Our Management 3.0 team had a fascinating series of discussions recently. We talked about our core values, and we made some important decisions! Like an infant not being aware of its personality, a startup cannot properly articulate its culture and values. Sure, you can be smart enough to describe your espoused values,...
Read moreby Christian Delez The Disconnect Issue I often experience strange human behavior in our world including people who talk about others in bad ways, people who spend too much time discussing problems instead of finding solutions, and people who blame others for their mistakes. In addition to that, authority figures so often represent a culture...
Read moreby Sergey Kotlov Another name for this article could be “How to delight your clients by making them suffer first”. It’s a story about a decision that wasted a lot of time for many and didn’t bring any value because it was based on distrust. If you ever met me in person, you would know...
Read moreby Sam, Management 3.0 Team One of the first things I do with my coaching clients is that I get them to define their values. It’s something that both baffles and assures me when they tell me that they’ve never even thought about it before. It baffles me because we need our values to help...
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