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Guacamole is the Answer

Turns out guacamole is the answer. I’m not entirely sure what the question is (on a side note, I just found out there is a new Douglas...

Outcomes Over Outputs - 10 Steps to Becoming an Outcome Focussed Org

We set Sales teams quota targets, but we don’t tell them they need to close a specific deal on a specific day. We ask marketing teams to...

Why Leaders Don’t Care About Culture

I was reading an article the other day from one of the big consultancy firms about organisational culture and why cultural change efforts...

A Lesson from Golf to Transform Your Organisation

In my consultancy work I use sporting analogies a lot. My hero growing up was Andre Agassi, and he once said that every tennis match is a...

Your Strategy Sucks: 3 Ways to Fix It

Here’s a stat for you: 5% of employees are aware of and/or understand their company’s strategy. Or an even better one: 71% of employees...

How Not To Do An Agile Transformation

Many of the organisations agilicist are drafted into have already been through an “agile transformation”. But they aren’t “transformed”....

3 Essential Things to Make Offshore Development a Success!

Agilicist have been parachuted into a multitude of organisations to fix issues they’ve had working with geographically distributed teams....

Want Productivity? Build a Culture of Trust

FACT: Higher Trust = Higher Productivity and more engagement. But how do you create a culture of trust in your organisation? ..... I was...

What You Measure is What You Get Back

“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.” – William Blake. In the modern world there are...