We have a duty to seek the truth, even if it doesn't align with our existing beliefs.  To red-team our ideas; to challenge what is accepted and permitted without scrutiny. Otherwise, we fall to dogmatism and to preaching what we think is right just because we think it's right.***JOIN THE FORGE***Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience.https://badassagile.com/the-forge/******Follow on CLUBHOUSE:https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agileDon't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews!https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/Follow The LinkedIn Page:https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agileWe're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me:https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile******Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game.Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

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Badass Unscripted - Seek Truth, No Matter The Source

In a race to keep your talent, offering what YOU think they will like is a short route to failure. People want to matter. That can be hard to do when dealing with one person, much less 10,000. Nevertheless, if you want to be the envy of your industry, start thinking about how to make people feel like they matter.***JOIN THE FORGE***Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience.https://badassagile.com/the-forge/******Follow on CLUBHOUSE:https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agileDon't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews!https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/Follow The LinkedIn Page:https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agileWe're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me:https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile******Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game.Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Badass Unfiltered - You Have to Scale "Mattering"

Let's have a little controversy today.People are afraid of commitment. They're starting to say we should change the word - eliminate it all together.  I'm fine with minimizing estimates.  I'm super fine with re-negotiating scope based on changing priorities on the ground. But I'm not OK with allowing words like commitment, accountability, and promises to leave the lexicon.Agile is about change. Change - transformation - or improvement of any kind implies movement.  We must move from where we are to today to where we want to be in the future in order to transform.  Movement requires action.  Neurons must fire. Muscles must activate. We must DO.And if we DO in the context of a team, we need to know what's happening next. Who will do what when?  How do we interdepend and interact?  This requires telling people what our actions will be - what will we DO and when will we do it?  In its simplest form, these are commitments.  And without them, we cannot blow away our customers.  We cannot delight the people who depend on us.Agile itself is a promise. A commitment to do better than we used to.  To create safety for each other not by softening words, but by making it ok to fail so we can learn effectively together.Without commitment, none of this will work.***JOIN THE FORGE***Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience.https://badassagile.com/the-forge/******Follow on CLUBHOUSE:https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agileDon't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews!https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/Follow The LinkedIn Page:https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agileWe're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me:https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile******Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game.Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 199 - Should We Eliminate Commitment?

It's my experience that what you avoid - whether it's because it scares you, or you believe you're no good at it - will find you.  Specifically, your inability to face and conquer your discomfort will continue to cause pain in your career, your happiness and your personal life.***JOIN THE FORGE***Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience.https://badassagile.com/the-forge/******Follow on CLUBHOUSE:https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agileDon't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews!https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/Follow The LinkedIn Page:https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agileWe're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me:https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile******Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game.Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Badass Unscripted - What You Avoid Will Find You

THE ONE FAILURE THAT KILLS ALL TEAM PROGRESS.....and how to solve it.Perhaps the most important thing Scrum teaches us to do is make and keep small commitments with consistency.On these points, I've spoken many times but I want to reveal that of all the human challenges I encounter in teams, it is this. Why can't people keep their word?-This problem exists everywhere - within our projects and beyond-Talk is cheap, and true action and fidelity to our commitments is rare-We all do, but it is a failure of great proportion that place low value on our word-Notice this week how many people have to be excused for missing a promise AFTER the deadline has passed. Notice how many people will even cancel or call in sick to avoid being accountable. Among the root causes are:-Overpromising-Depleted energy /poor time and energy management-Lack of alignment between passion and work-Poor communications and unclear expectations-unaddressed blockers-lack of urgency-OverwhelmIn all of these cases, there are simple solutions.  One is to ask for help, another is to continuously communicate movement toward a small goal.  Proper sprint planning and standups should help, but a funny thing happens. People would rather be seen as late (and subsequently unreliable) than as needing help or renegotiating arrangements.There is another way.  Rally the team around their group and individual identity.  What do you want to be known for?  Ask people and they'll tell you - dependability, trustworthy, accountable.  Hold them to this higher ideal, and the commitment to the smaller deadlines will follow.***JOIN THE FORGE***Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience.https://badassagile.com/the-forge/******Follow on CLUBHOUSE:https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agileDon't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews!https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/Follow The LinkedIn Page:https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agileWe're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me:https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile******Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game.Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 198 - Failure To Execute

-Across the world, people are leaving - or thinking of leaving - their jobs and careers in stunning numbers.-Is the solution in Agile?-Perhaps because of the pandemic, people are waking up and lighting up to a different future. -It may be the case that they're realizing that what they had been told was an unthinkable model of work is actually quite doable, with little or no downward impact on productivity.-People have enjoyed less commute time, more family time, more choice in how and where they work.-So how do we plug the drain?-compensation is not the only consideration.-flex hours and remote work play a heavy factor. People want to work where they want when they want. For too long, companies have rewarded butts-in-seats, long hours, and always-on engagement. Now that they're finding they have options, they want to tip the scale back in their favour; and once the veil has been lifted, it's hard to close it again-Increasingly important is supporting side projects and future hustle - If pensions and benefits are slowly eroding over time, people want to feel like they have an option to design income streams and passion projects for the uncertain future.  How Can Agile Help?-Whatever we do, we must invest but invest with intention. If we throw money, promotions, and flex time at a select few fence-jumpers, we have to be prepared to do so for all.  And that investment cannot be blind - we have to be clear about what we expect it to DO.-Ultimately, we want happier people. An engaged workforce simply delivers better results for the end customer.-We cannot afford to wait months or years for a definitive response. we need to communicate early and start LISTENING to needs - and implementing experiments and proposals so we can stem the exit-Leaders must admit that change is here, it is time for an adjustment and that people are your finest asset-We cannot see this as a stop-gap measure. We must insist on cultural change, on sustaining environments for people that not only attract the best talent but create enviable cultures that place the wellness and happiness of people at least as high as that of the customer***JOIN THE FORGE***Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience.https://badassagile.com/the-forge/******Follow on CLUBHOUSE:https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agileDon't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews!https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/Follow The LinkedIn Page:https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agileWe're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me:https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile******Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game.Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 197 - The Great Resignation

One of the critical pieces of leadership is strength - strength of character, ideasWe're never taught how to be strong so strong has become a bad word, associated with bullies or pushinesss or anger or worseStrength means the ability to manage and control the thoughts and emotions that launch in response to injurious words or actions.  It means the ability to stay centred and unswayed.  It means resolve and grit. it means internal certainty. No MBA and no certification will teach you that.-Lash back when we feel offended, shame-Criticize in order to feel big, strong-Hate on the ideas of others - this one is huge in 2021-Seek Attention and approval-Apologize for who they are, bow to the crowd***JOIN THE FORGE***Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience.https://badassagile.com/the-forge/******Follow on CLUBHOUSE:https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agileDon't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews!https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/Follow The LinkedIn Page:https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agileWe're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me:https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile******Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game.Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Badass Unfiltered - Strength

The secret to boundless energy and consistent forward momentum is to stay hungry every day.  Keep reaching, stretching, learning, and acting as if you're starting from zero.   Assume you know nothing, and nothing is guaranteed. ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience. https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile We're also on YouTube!  Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 196 - Stay Hungry

When looking for the cause of delivery issues in teams, think of the three P's.   Permission   Perfection   Past   ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience. https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile We're also on YouTube!  Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 195 - The Three Things That Destroy Agile Effectiveness

Most teams are composed of people who have other day jobs.  This will be particularly true of a product owner who has multiple priorities and projects, but increasingly true of all team members - they have multiple accountabilities across the organization.   So how do you work with a team like that?  They may not be living agile values every day...they may be getting different versions of it...agile is something you have to live with as a way of BEING, but you can't BE it for 30 minutes a day and expect change down to the soul level.   Someone must stay vigilant.   We must make daily promises and keep them.  We must set weekly goals.  we must show product, not talk about progress.   We must keep focus and prioritize the high-value things.   That means you need to keep them on the fundamentals.  You need to help them become successful.  You must shine a light on right thinking and right action so that they can develop right habits until...you don't have to be so vigilant, and they can just BE agile.   ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience. https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile We're also on YouTube!  Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Badass Unscripted - A Great Coach Keeps Watch

A dark stage, a single light, and a stool.  The feel of a live room (that we all miss) is the perfect crucible for a contemplation that becomes a rallying cry.  What if we feel called to do more, be more?  Is it out duty to lean into the uncomfortable?  What happens if we fail to oppose a prevailing force that we know is wrong? ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience. https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile We're also on YouTube!  Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.  

Badass Unfiltered - The Hero's Arc

Too much of what we "know" about in the field of high performance comes from books, memes, or youtube videos.  Inspiration is essential, so is knowledge, but it is how you ACT upon both of these that is a difference-maker.   Can you identify what courageous leaps you took today?   What you were humble enough to learn?  What you were disciplined enough to earn or get?   If not, you are studying, NOT practicing.   Rehearsal trumps learning any day.   I used to be like this.  I used to memorize all of the sayings and wisdom only to have it inaccessible to me when I most needed it.   The only way to get that is to pick an area so you can focus, decide on the outcomes you want, and learn to NOTICE when a new action is required from you in your daily life and work.   Only when I was able to make slow changes and gain success did I build the required memory and confidence to do it again and again...and THEN it becomes a way of life.  A daily performance.   Jan 2021 Version LISTEN TO THE BADASS AGILE PODCAST ON SHUFFLE!  - Get it here for iOS - https://getshuffle.app/ ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience. https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile We're also on YouTube!  Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Was someone unjust in their words?  Or are you just bad with criticism? Were you really just observing, or just scared to jump in? Are you working on yourself, waiting for the right moment, or scared to leap? Is something out of your league, or do you just tell yourself it is?   This is shadow work.  What tapes have you been playing your whole life that keep you from getting to another level of skill?   Rehearsal is not good enough - if you rehearse the wrong things, you will deliver a wrong performance.   You have to work on your shadow.   LISTEN TO THE BADASS AGILE PODCAST ON SHUFFLE!  - Get it here for iOS - https://getshuffle.app/ ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion experience. https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile We're also on YouTube!  Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Badass Unscripted - Why You Need To Work On Your Shadow

Picture a smoky club.  The spill of the stage light, hushed chatter, and the chiming of glasses and plates carrying good drinks and passable food punctuate the mood. A well-worn house mic and PA are the vessel.  This is a space to create and connect. A true experiment in agile creativity.  A completely fresh offering.  Like a song with no melody. A verse with no meter. An abundance of logic has gotten us only so far.  Could this be different?   Join me in this very agile experiment.  Unfiltered.  Unedited.  Raw, as it happens. This week, I've been thinking about fences.  

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