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Tag Archives: Responsibility ProcessWhether your leadership intent is your own success, or leading a team, task force, or entire enterprise, mastering responsibility will accelerate your progress. “Mastery” means having mastered your own internal Responsibility Process™ and applying the 3 Keys to Responsibility™ in daily … Continue reading I’m going to make an exception to one of my practices: I normally refrain from publicly using the Leadership Gift to analyze current affairs. It would be so easy for me: every day some prominent journalist or blogger bellows, “When … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Personal Development, Responsibility
Tagged economy, flight attendant, JetBlue, Leadership, obligation, quit, Responsibility Process, Steven Slater
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When you feel obligated, you are doing something you don’t want to do but feel you have to. Feeling like you “have to” generates resentment that you either bottle up or release at unrelated or inappropriate moments, and the resentment … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, Responsibility
Tagged Coaching, obligation, Responsibility Process, stress management, workplace
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When things go well, responsibility is seldom an issue. But when that graceful state of flow turns to upset because your attention gets disrupted by a problem you didn’t anticipate or don’t want to deal with, your words reveal where … Continue reading This will give you a whole bunch of new mental images for the Responsibility Process. Give the video below time to load. It’s worth it. This short talk ranked 8th out of 150 presentations at the XP2010 international conference earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Responsibility
Tagged Agile, Norway, Responsibility Process, Sergey Dmetriev, XP2010
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Todd and his family gave me permission to share this great news with you. Maybe you have a bright child like this. I do. Christopher, I saw you speak at the Agile 2009 event in Chicago. During your presentation, you … Continue reading Stuart Cordell (my lifelong friend, Leadership Gift advocate, and fine Ohio attorney) pointed me to this excellent video about how the legal system hamstrings us from living our lives, doing our jobs, or serving each other for fear of frivolous … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Leadershift Gift, Leadership
Tagged laws, legal system, Phillip K. Howard, Responsibility Process
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Leaders who are relatively new to learning about the mind’s internal Responsibility Process™ often ask: “What about the person who is too responsible?” One such question landed recently after I co-presented a webinar with Zach Nies (VP Products, Rally Software) … Continue reading
Posted in Responsibility
Tagged Leadership, obligation, Responsibility Process, shame, sustainability
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I was honored to collaborate with Zach Nies, VP Products, Rally Software on The Best Kept Secret of Agile Software Quality which was apparently viewed by over 900 people on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. You can watch the replay. We present for an hour and answer questions for another 25 minutes. Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Responsibility
Tagged Agile, quality, Rally Software, Responsibility Process, software development, Zack Nies
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A well-edited 30-minute video of me answering questions about the Responsibility Process, agile software development, leadership, and teamwork was just posted on InfoQ. The interview was conducted in September 2009 at the Agile2009 conference in Chicago. Thanks to InfoQ and … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership
Tagged Agile2009, Amr Elssamadisy, Christopher Avery, Responsibility Process
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