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Radical Transparency: How a Strong Startup Culture can Deliver Success
People and culture teams walk a tightrope balancing workforce demands and culture. Through radical transparency, companies can live their core values across their entire business, cultivating trust and co-ownership among the workforce. This article outlines a vision for Radical Transparency to build strong, sustainable workplace cultures for remote or onsite teams.
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How to Rebuild Tech Culture for Those Who Survived the Layoffs
A wave of layoffs hit the software industry and changed the definition of tech culture. This article explores the situation across multiple tech companies, and the diverse choices made to support employees who survived, and those they had to say good-bye to. It provides suggestions for those of us who have stayed behind, and how to rebuild culture in our tech teams.
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How to Introduce Innovation into the DNA of 21st Century Companies
An innovation mindset is about the tiny little improvements any employee can do; hundreds of simple, low-cost- no-effort activities are in plain sight just waiting for somebody to deploy them. This article provides guidelines that can support you in changing the attitude of employees in your organization providing trust, time, space, teams, a second operating system, MVPs, and co-creation.
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Creating Psychological Safety in Your Teams
Psychological safety is a work climate where employees feel free to express their questions, concerns, ideas and mistakes. We cannot have high-performing teams without psychological safety. In this article, you will learn practical ideas, interesting stories, and powerful approaches to boost psychological safety in your team.
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The Three Symptoms of Toxic Leadership and How to Get out of It
None of us are born toxic leaders, but anyone can easily become one. In the past several years, workplaces have started to feel the effects of “toxic leadership.” Now is the time to educate everyone on the importance of speaking right, doing right, treating each other right in the workplace, and above all, being a non-toxic leader.
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Q&A on the Book Unleashed
The book Unleashed - The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss explores how leaders can become more effective in empowering their people. It shows how they can combine trust, love, and belonging to create spaces where people excel.
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Q&A on the Book Agile Conversations
The book Agile Conversations by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick explores how productive conversations can change the way organizations develop software. It provides techniques and exercises that can help you gain insight into communication and collaboration issues and improve your day-to-day conversations, achieving valuable business results from your agile team.
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Q&A on the Book How to Lead in Product Management
The book How to Lead in Product Management by Roman Pichler provides solutions for product managers and product owners to lead development teams and stakeholders. It covers practices like building trust, setting product goals, listening and speaking, resolving conflict, and securing buy-in to product decisions in order to achieve product success.
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How Structure, Process, and Rules Make People Free
There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem
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Q&A on the Book Change-Friendly Leadership
Friendliness is the core denominator for active and willful participation of people when being affected by change, according to Rodger Dean Duncan. In his book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP, he explores how to effectively lead and manage change, transition, and implementation issues in organizations.
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Q&A on the Book Agile Leadership in Practice - Applying Management 3.0
The book Agile Leadership in Practice - Applying Management 3.0 by Dominik Maximini is an experience report of the agile transformation journey of NovaTec. Maximini shares his experiences from applying principles and practices from Management 3.0, success stories, failure stories, and learnings from experiments.
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Q&A on the Book Mastering Collaboration
The book Mastering Collaboration by Gretchen Anderson provides techniques and exercises that can be used to improve collaboration in teams and between teams and their environment. It explores topics like enlisting people, teamworking, trust, and respect, generating ideas collectively, decision making, and transparent communication.