Should you Quit Selling and Start Facilitating?

In last Friday’s blog post, Is Your Sales Team Prepared to Sell to a Team, I discussed a few of the barriers that I believe exists for Salespeople and their lack of training in selling to groups of decision makers. I have investigated several ways of approaching sales people and have tried a few myself Read More …

Problem-Solving Leadership

Dr. Jeff Soper is a seasoned executive, consultant, author, and coach who is a recognized expert in the fields of leadership development, performance improvement, and creativity and innovation. He expresses Problem-Solving leadership in different terms than most of us do. Related Podcast and Transcription: Getting to the Leadership Table Joe: Even in a Lean way Read More …

Struggling with the Difference between a Feature and Story

One of my most listened to podcast is with a relative unknown Agile guy named Eric Landes. In the Agile world, I expect he is well-known and has spoken at a few of the conferences I have attended. I was re-reading the transcript today after seeing how highly rated the original podcast was on my Read More …

Is Your Sales Team Prepared to Sell to a Team

We spend a lot of time discussing the inner working of our teams and breaking down silos between everyone. We will all admit that it requires work, and most of us will even say maybe some outside help or facilitation. When we start working with others, we might even if we are real progressive, invite Read More …

7-Part Video Series on the Toyota Kata

I wanted to have one collection point for the the 7-part series with Brandon Brown where we discussed the the Toyota Kata. Toyota Kata is documented in Mike Rother’s book Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results. The series consists of these 7 videos: What is Toyota Kata Using Kata for Alignment Read More …

Old Style Thinking of Plan – Do

One of my favorite authors (even though he has turned me down several times for a podcast) is Jim Highsmith. Jim has authored, several books with my favorite being Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (2nd Edition) which comes as no surprise to most readers of this blog. One of the items that Jim challenges Read More …