I’ve mentioned "acculturation" a couple of times lately. Let’s dig in a little deeper on that. In our trade, we make much of "education", training and learning and skills inventories and such-like. I say we make much of it, well. That’s an overstatement, of course. Companies talk about it a great deal. But i’m often
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So, in recent muses, i’ve tried to establish that our next step is a) restructuring economy to b) grow & keep geeks. How? What changes do I make in my org, assuming that I have restructured the economy to give me space to do so, to increase the org’s ability to grow and keep geeks?
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From yesterday’s dark muse, this: i need stronger geeks. But I can't *get* stronger geeks without attending first and foremost to *growing* them and *keeping* them. — Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill) August 12, 2018 #### Let’s go there. I believe we are consistently failing in the geek trade. By failing, I mean that we who
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It seems to me that a very great deal of "agile" advice has an implicit prefix, "assuming your team is close to healthy," you should … The assumption of reasonable health just — to put it as gently as I can manage — doesn’t seem like the sort of assumption we should be making. The
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Coaches, let’s talk about fear and — not the team — fear and the coach. I get to meet and speak with a lot of coaches, which pleases me. Because i’m an introvert with a taste for authenticity, I am also lucky enough to quite often get them in small groups or one-on-one where folks
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Yesterday, this popped out. two very common misconceptions: 1) that it is possible to organize your way into agility. 2) that the secret to sticky change is anything other than “changers feel better”. Michael D. Hill (@GeePawHill) April 19, 2018 Today I want to elaborate a little on that second point, that sticky change happens
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The more I work higher up the chain, the more I encounter folks who are openly seeking success theater, w/no interest or concern for actual value. This observation blinded me for many years. I have an odd-shaped-to-some but very strong sense of personal responsibility, myself, and I am no less prone to moralizing judgments than
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Maybe the real first wrong was the slide into "method" in the first place. Have you ever known yourself to behave in a way that is generally perceived as neutral or even positive, but in a way that is actually doing you or others harm? Depressive Solitaire My work makes me think a lot. And
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A little more on coaching theory today… Folks ask me a lot of questions whose fundamental focus could be expressed as "how do you get them to do what you want them to do?" so. Here goes. I hereby reveal my entire competitive advantage as a professional coach, by telling you my special secret for
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Hey, there, it’s GeePaw! And you are watching the first ever GeePaw video aimed specifically at coaches. I hope you like it. Do you know what the first absolute prerequisite for being a successful software development coach is? You have to like people. You have to like people. You have to like their style. You
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