When someone drops the “organised chaos” comment, what they’re really saying is one of two things:
- it’s actual chaos, or
- you’re not very good a describing it clearly (and if you’re...
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Sprints are a handy way of thinking. A backlog of things that need doing get attacked in short sharp sprints - bursts of activity on a human scale, one-or-two weeks only,...
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We don’t need update meetings. We don’t need to know what you did yesterday or last week. Nobody benefits when you to give a blow-by-blow or recount who said what to...
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Cooking a meal, launching a product, fulfilling on a contract, carving the stone - the hardest part isn’t in any of the hard parts.
It isn’t in getting each ingredient ready; at...
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Anytime you feel yourself rushing toward a cliff edge, you have two choices.
The first, obvious, safe option: turn away. Do whatever it takes to slow down progress, throw out an anchor...