Hi everyone! I’m so excited to be back, out into the open, into the fresh air *metaphorically speaking*, after the time spent mining, digging out and polishing the insights that — as I humbly hope — might provide some fresh variety to your information diet (see The Dietitians of Info-Sharing)…

This time around, I’m starting my story with a disclaimer. I’m afraid the cool-headed strategist in me overdid it a bit with the pragmatism, in Let My People Stay (Not Go), the piece I published a week earlier. On the other hand, a week earlier I was all into straight…

“Life inside a startup — especially a high-growth startup — is inherently chaotic. For many, it can feel like a race against time along a track whose ground is always shifting. The challenges are especially acute for human resources leaders. Budgets are limited, but demands are huge. You’re under constant…

“… In 1284, while the town of Hamelin was suffering from a rat infestation, a piper dressed in multicolored (“pied”) clothing appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promised the mayor a solution to their problem with the rats. The mayor, in turn, promised to pay him for the removal…

Most of us had many (or not so many) toasts to a smooth start of the year 2020, and by now we’re ~10 days into it. And, with reference to my recent Dreaming Into 2020 post, I’m pleased to say that some of my dreams might have slowly moved into…

You must have heard/read it: this year Time magazine has handed an award for global impact to Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist. The news has collected many likes in Twitter, and some politicians have even used the occasion as an opportunity for “head-swapping”, a skill they’ve become apt at…

In Visualization and Miracles, published around Thanksgiving time, I mused on how cool would that be if we could allocate some time left in the year 2019 to visualizing miracles, or… simply put, to dreaming. What do we want see change in the year 2020? And, you might have noted…

Previously I published a number of articles sharing tidbits of what Kanban — a method for work management — is about, and you are welcome to revisit them (see the Related section below). And, I thought it’s about time (the season of Giving!) to share a fundamental resource that might…

Previously (see Retrospectives: In Your Own Sweet Way), I mostly focused on the visual inventory, going over some reports, charts, and techniques. I’ve also provided an outline of the heuristic, trial-and-error approach as the essential methodological foundation for running retrospectives. Today, I’ll look into the secret nuts and bolts of…