In these turbulent COVID-19 times, anxiety and fear are freezing our ability to respond to any threats or opportunities in our business environment. We are in survival mode where our reptilian brain takes over rationality. Stopping the engine instead of moving forward appears to us in this state to be the only action feasible. Brain and guts, ...

As I contemplate the reopening of our company, I now have to consider addressing the following key issues: What will my workforce look like? What capabilities do we have? What has happened to our customer base? What has happened to our supply chain? What businesses do we want to be in? Where will we put our scarce resources?How can I...

In the beginning, there was an idea; a simple design that might change the world and surely will delight all our customers. That idea, I shared it with all my team, and we were wholly engaged because it wasn't a project, it was a case. Our energy and commitment were awesome. We worked with our customer, and he got some small pieces of work com...

In summer 2017 Sabine's life was full of health issues, family troubles, job issues and many other problems. Then – while working as an agile coach & scrum master – she decided to treat herself as an agile product. Sabine turned the well-known agile mindset and tools of her trade onto the woman in the mirror and took full responsibility as a Pr...

The idea of change before crisis hasn't taken hold in the majority of personal or business contexts. Running on autopilot is the ingrained pattern, making the Covid-19 interruption and crisis especially important. Every aspect of it prepares companies and humanity for the more subtle, yet high risk upset of impending climate change. With business d...

A crisis creates space. Opens us to the unknown. Takes us to places within ourselves we never knew. When the world is in chaos, we need more than hope. We need a way to tap into what we have learned and use this to create the new future, together. Work is a vector for human connection and mutual meaning-making if we choose. To activate this potenti...

I was just getting settled into my role as CIO. I had taken on the challenges of an IT environment that had been neglected and having fun getting the department aligned and finding ways to shore up departmental problems. In the midst of these changes, the CEO informed me of the possibility of a potential merger. Papers were signed and due diligence...