Talent + Technology

Contextual Leadership

What’s the “best” leadership style?

From Scientific Management to Servant Leadership and beyond, there are a number of theories and philosophies out there about management and leadership styles. Some think Taylor was completely off the mark…

Leadership Teams may be a smell

Some time in mid-January, I was thinking about various organizational patterns and how companies run. I was thinking, in particular, about the idea of a “leadership team”. I dropped a thought into Hootsuite and a couple of weeks later, on February 6, that thought was…

Estimating our Work

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about estimations and our general obsession with getting them “right”. After all, we need to know when the project will be done. And we need accuracy. Knowing the entire project will be done before the end of the third quarter isn’t good enough. We need to know…

A blank wall and a fist full of index cards

I’m occasionally asked, “Doc, we’re looking at product X, Y, and Z, but we just can’t decide which is the best one for our project. What do you recommend?”

One on One Meetings

About 15 years ago, I started a simple practice with my fellow co-workers and employees. Every so often, we’d meet to discuss stuff and things. Nothing too formal, just a touch-point to make sure we were staying connected. I called the sessions “touch-point meetings”. Over time, I made…