Frau Shrink was working the night shift and I was going to host a webinar. Normally I would have done this from home. But it’s hard to get a good sleep during the day when your husband is yelling into his headset. So. There I was. Sitting in my old bedroom in my parents house. …
In this episode of The Project Shrink podcast I am talking to Jon Terry, COO of LeanKit, the online Kanban tool. We talk about Kanban: What is it? What are the benefits? How can you get started? LeanKit is a sponsor of The Project Shrink blog. Click here if you can’t see the video. Click …
Dave Prior and I have talked in the past a lot about social media. I mean a lot. Check out my Youtube channel for a lot of conversations between us. Many conversations. Recently we discovered that neither of us is active on Google+. We don’t want to. Has something changed? What happened? To social media? …
What makes a culture a “project culture”? I wonder why I haven’t raised this question sooner. Hmmm. Here is my shot at it. A “culture” is about the shared notion of “how we do things around here”, shared values, assumptions and beliefs. So. A “project culture” is about the shared notion of “how we do …
The book Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization (affiliate link) is number 1 on this weeks New York Times Best Sellers list. Two years ago I had the honor to interview Dave Logan, one of the authors, about the book. This book describes a ten-year, 24,000-person study that shows corporate leaders …