All ethical styles of leadership have a place in organizational life, including benevolent dictatorships. High school football coaches and symphony conductors often require obedience with little discussion.   Diversity: I ask audiences to… Continue reading → [...]

Here’s an alarming statistic: almost two thirds of employees steal proprietary corporate data when they quit or are fired.If one of your soon-to-be-ex colleagues decides to do some damage before they leave the company, make sure that your work remains unaffected.Have a checklist of all the accounts that they had access to. Don’t forget to remove their permissions when they leave.Be careful of how you manage your passwords. Use strong and unique passwords, change them regularly, activ [...]

The PM World Journal has published the latest version of my Bird’s eye view in the agile forest article. For sure there will updates in the coming months. Some years ago, you could say “Scrum is agile” and ask “is … Continue reading → [...]

Going back a bit to 1999, psychologist David Dunning, PhD, and his graduate student, Justin Kruger, published their research that in their own words revealed, "incompetent people ... cannot recognize just how incompetent they are." Now, this isn't to suggest that most, or even a lot of us, are incompetent. That's not the point. The point is we all suffer from cognitive bias. We all believe we [...]

Do you buy this? "Statistics does not require randomness. The three essential elements of statistics are measurement, comparison, and variation. Randomness is one way to supply variation, and it’s one way to model variation, but it’s not necessary. Nor is it necessary to have “true” randomness (of the dice-throwing or urn-sampling variety) in order to have a useful probability model." [...]