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Category Archives: MusingsToday is day three of Agile2007 in Washington DC. For engineers, project managers, and developers there are lots of interesting sessions about engineering and development things. I'm interested in the 80% of engineering that isn't engineering but might instead be … Continue reading
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It's day two of Agile 2007 in Washington DC. I met friend Ashley Johnson in the hotel lobby at 6:20AM with a promise of a sunrise jog around the Mall and the spectacular sites there. We established a plodding pace … Continue reading
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I’m at Agile2007 in Washington DC this week. After traveling all all last week, I’m really not in the conference mood. So, the highlight of my day was getting out at sunrise and jogging to the Lincoln Memorial and back. … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Musings, Responsibility
Tagged Agile2007, Knowledge Team Leadership, responsibility redefined
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Chief Happiness Officer Alexander Kjerulf is writing a series of blog entries about who has the right to complain. In thinking about responsibility and complaining, I'm quite sure that every human has the inalienable right to complain anytime about anything. … Continue reading
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Thursday night I was the guest of Anders Risling and Lärke Johns for dinner in their home in Stockholm. Anders wrote the first book in the world on knowledge management— öretagetKunskapsf, (“The Knowhow Company” co-authered with Karl-Erik Sveiby, 1986. Awarded … Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Musings
Tagged Anders Risling, birthday, Knowledge Team Leadership, Provins Fem, Sweden
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Today I was teaching Responsibility Redefined to a wonderful group of consultants at the premier Swedish consulting firm Provins Fem. I mentioned “effective” versus “efficient” and one of the consultants stopped me for a quick language check — as they … Continue reading I learned that Swedish professionals wear eye masks in order to sleep past 3 AM or 4 AM when the sun rises. Most good hotels have black-out curtains. The sun has a way of getting around the black-out curtains in … Continue reading I’m still in Sweden teaching Knowledge Team Leadership. This is a picture of the conference center in the country-side outside of Stockholm. Three times in the last three days I’ve been asked in conversation whether I took a summer vacation … Continue reading I am in the countryside outside of Stockholm at a beautiful conference facility teaching Knowledge Team Leadership. I’ve discovered two important things about the Swedish people. First, like the Hispanic people with whom I work in Mexico, Swedes do not … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Musings, Responsibility
Tagged Knowledge Team Leadership, Sweden
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My family is preparing for our first European vacation as a family. What's cool is that it is months away but our island counter in the kitchen is stacked with assorted travel books on Ireland and London, our primary destinations. … Continue reading
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