Coaching agile is “Shouting Into the Wind”. Prepare yourself for getting little engagement or feedback. If you thrive on engagement and feedback or – gasp – true collaboration and co-creation, get ready for ongoing disappointment. You will need the patience of a rock.

Originally posted on 2023-07-18 at 21:03 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7087174985248641024

I’m experimenting with creating my own profile photo frame, rather than using the two LinkedIn options that are employment related (green/#opentowork purple/#hiring). #OpenToNewIdeas

Originally posted on 2023-07-16 at 20:06 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7086435902662610944

If I never hear the word “exponential” again when it comes to “agile” and “business” it will be too soon. While the idea exists from a mathematical, and perhaps limited real-world perspective, it’s such an abused term, and so impractically seductive that it acts like the flame that moths are attracted to in the dark, only to be incinerated by it. I’m looking at “exponential leadership”, “exponential agile”, “exponential business”, “exponential intelligence”, “exponential growth”, “exponential change”. Yes, I’m cranky about it.

Originally posted on 2023-07-15 at 01:02 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7085785763694444545

Are you at the place where your head is so full of stuff that you can’t remember much of any of it? Or is that covid-brain talking?

Originally posted on 2023-07-14 at 01:33 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7085431122020421632

Best final line of a TV show? The Expanse: “Let’s just stay here for a minute.”

Originally posted on 2023-07-02 at 18:15 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7081334596751003648

This is the weekend of Independence Day in the United States of America, my adopted place of residence. I was not born here. I am an immigrant. I appreciate the opportunities I’ve been given here. And I mourn for the people who are not able to have those same opportunities.

I think one of the reasons I’m mourning is that this country has been so deeply and utterly focused on independence and the image of “self made men” (notice the intentional gendering I’ve chosen) that it has ignored the other side of the coin – interdependence. There is no choice to be made. It’s not about one or the other. It’s about balancing the two, like we balance our very breath. In. Out. Life in human civilization is impossible without that balance.

Why is it so that there is no Interdependence Day? Why is it so that there is no Statue of Responsibility? What are the blinders that this purportedly great society is wearing so firmly that it can’t even talk about and get serious about those things? Or am I just missing the conversation?

January 4th is halfway between occurrences of Independence Day. I say we mark that as Interdependence Day. Will you do that?

Originally posted on 2023-07-02 at 17:05 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7081316893826973696

47

Without going out of your door,
You can know the ways of the world.
Without peeping through your window,
You can see the Way of Heaven.
The farther you go,
The less you know.

Thus, the Sage knows without traveling,
Sees without looking,
And achieves without Ado.

From the Tao Teh Ching translated by John C. H. Wu

Originally posted on 2023-07-02 at 15:52 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7081298527749865472

Be careful out there. Covid is not over yet! I tested positive this morning after what seemed like an innocent week with colleagues in person.

Originally posted on 2023-06-30 at 23:17 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7080685772399378432

So if an “economy” grows at 3% per year, it will have doubled over the course of about 25 years. That seems unsustainable, given that our human civilization already consumes the resources of 1.5 planets Earth per year. What feelings come up for you when you read and really internalize this?

Originally posted on 2023-06-28 at 22:49 via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7079953966326841345