Changing CultureSo you want to change your company’s culture? Because you believe that if we can’t change the culture we’ll never be able to be agile? The reasoning goes, if we don’t change culture…People won’t be open to new ways of working. Managers won’t empower their people. People won’t be open to inspecting and adapting. Without inspecting and adapting… no agile? Right? But...
Writing on Writing
I used to write all the time. I used to be compelled to write. I loved to write. Then I stopped writing. It wasn’t that I didn’t create content. It’s just that a lot of the content I created was either audio in the form of a podcast, or video in the form on a webinar. There is something different about writing. Something uniquely valuable. Sitting down to write forces you to...
You Have To Love The Grind
I got a good night sleep Saturday night. Woke up late. Crawled out of bed. Grabbed a cup of coffee and sat on my porch enjoying the last of the spring flowers. A few minutes later my youngest son pulled in the driveway. He got out of the car whistling. He was singing the phrase ‘loving the grind’. He had just gotten back from the gym and apparently had a pretty good workout. As he walked by me...
Mike Cottmeyer, CEO… A New Blog on the Art of Business Building
My first blog post on ‘LeadingAgile the Blog’ was way back in 2007. In those days I was a Project Manager at CheckFree… hadn’t joined or left VersionOne, hadn’t joined or left Pillar Technology… nor had I started ‘LeadingAgile the Company’. Fast forward 11 years and quite a bit has changed. I’ve been running ‘LeadingAgile the Company’ for nearly 8...
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