Career Ladders Won't Get You Promoted

Usually they're only used to prevent promotion. What to do instead?

Continue reading »

Book Brief - 9 Lies About Work

Labeling 9 concepts as "lies", Marcus and Ashley declare an intention to dress down systems you have come to expect from organizations. Reviews, planning, goals, culture, leadership etc. But, as with many books on leadership, the truth about these lies is found in the nuance.

Continue reading »

The Eroding Effect of Labeling Others as "Blockers"

How to actually break through impediments without being a jerk.

Continue reading »

Book Club 2018 Highlights

The top leadership books from Manager Book Club 2018

Continue reading »

OKRs: A Metric System for Leaders not Liters

How to tie what you to all day to organizational success.

Continue reading »

“Show And Tell Demos” in the World of DevOps

Operations work can be hard to view with an agile lens. Work can be very interrupt-driven which makes it difficult to demo regularly relative to more project-oriented work. So we started weekly Show and Tell.

Continue reading »