Leadership

Separating Business Strategy and Strategic Planning: Insights from My Garden Project

Separating Business Strategy and Strategic Planning: Insights from My Garden Project

Over the past few months, I've poured my energy into a landscaping project in our front garden.

It's been a back-breaking labor of love, and it got me thinking about how gardens can serve as a great parallel to the business world. They demand focus, attention, and meticulous planning, and remain under constant threat (cue the weeds! 👎).



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The Two Product Roles You Probably Haven’t Thought About…

The Two Product Roles You Probably Haven’t Thought About…

Platform Product Managers and Developer Experience are two emerging roles that have not traditionally been on technology org charts…



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How responsive is your organisation?

How responsive is your organisation?

The uncertainty created by the last few months has forced us to make changes at a pace never seen before. An increase in change is nothing new. Change has been accelerating for the last 150 years.



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The Ecosystem Leader

The Ecosystem Leader

Leadership as an area of study is still in its early beginnings. Today, leaders are grappling with the change from the siloed, hierarchical management styles best suited the industrial era. In an ecosystem world, we face a new challenge of a shift towards a model where no single individual has formal control.



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An agile coach won’t fix your product problems

An agile coach won’t fix your product problems

Where an agile coach focuses on the process to optimise the what and the how, a Discovery coach focuses on the process for understanding the why.



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The baby and the beast

The baby and the beast

When teams grow beyond the ideal “2-3 pizza” size of 6 or 7 people, you need extra management layers to ensure delivery of strategic objectives. But with every extra team member, the burden of communication increases.



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Innovation is messy, so throw out the process

Innovation is messy, so throw out the process

Three main methodologies, Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile are currently used in many organisations. I am often asked about the differences between the three.



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3 tools to design your culture

3 tools to design your culture

I want to introduce you to three tools that can be used to assess your team's health. 

On several projects I’ve worked on, the team has set off with the best intentions, smashing through goals and delivering awesome work. 



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Creating a mission orientated team

Creating a mission orientated team

One of the biggest challenges that any organisation faces is building its own culture. This issue covers culture, leadership and creating a thriving environment for work, one of the key ingredients to innovation & start-up success.



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