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Responsible Leadership Questions & Answers

I appreciate you. And I appreciate your interest in how personal and shared responsibility works in the mind. People like you joined me today for a solid hour of my best information about leading, teaming, and succeeding through 100% ownership. It’s live, no-cost, and completely driven by your questions. You were there right? Or [...]

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Responsible leadership from the refrigerator door

Your refrigerator door is one of the places I suggest you hang a copy of the Responsibility Process poster. Other suggestions include your office, conference rooms, and, of course, the all-powerful bathroom mirror. The objective is to see it often.
Following Directions

Agile industry colleague Mike Cottmeyer sent me this photo of his family’s refrigerator where his [...]

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Slides from QCon presentation

I’m in San Francisco today at QCon where I gave a talk in the Being Agile track called Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: How to Build Any Team Any Time. Earlier posts about QCon should show up below in the Related Posts section.
I promised attendees that I’d post my slides here, so here they are: [...]

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Agile Journal – Effective Agile Testing: Asking the Right Question

Amr Elssamadisy, editor in chief of the Agile Journal, is a friend and colleague. I love his response in the November 2008 issue to the frequent question “How do I get person X to do action Y.” Read it here:

Agile Journal – Effective Agile Testing: Asking the Right Question

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Agile Over the Sea

Strange Attractors
I skipped the Toronto Agile 2008 conference this year in  August. But when the call for proposals was out back in January I heard from Portia Tung that she’d read my article on Personal Agility and wished I would present Responsibility Redefined™ in Toronto. I appreciated that since I’d presented at the 2004-2007 conferences. [...]

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