Much of my LinkedIn and Twitter feeds have questionnaires with two or three choices. One of those choices contains the One Right Answer. All the other answers are Wrong. Or, a person poses a question that’s supposed to show that they—and they alone—know the answer to the question. (I ranted about one of those on […]
I’ve been thinking about flow… In his first week, Tom, a new manager, realizes the four teams he leads and serves are frantically trying to finish their work. Each team feels too much pressure to have one-on-ones with him, in this, his first week. He first checked the project portfolio. Here’s what he discovered: His
Several people have contacted me recently about “missing” articles on this site. They say, “Here’s a URL and why isn’t the article there?” The article isn’t there because I didn’t write it. Yet. But the people contact me because the LLMs (Large Language Models) claim I have written these articles. How did the LLMs do
Here are several unsolicited offers I received in email and various messaging today: An unsolicited email explaining my site was slow and not high-ranking in SEO. Another unsolicited offer to totally redo my social media. And yet a third unsolicited offer to make my consulting business much more successful by allowing AI to write content
Many nonfiction writers start books with outlines. I’m not big on outlines because they shortcut the writer’s thinking. (Nonfiction writers think and learn as they write.) However, some writers go off on tangents without outlines. Or, some writers (raises hand) are prone to put everything she ever learned about this topic into one book. Either
Every minute, it seems as if someone is talking about how great ChatGPT is. It’s going to revolutionize the world! I agree— I am sure AI will revolutionize the world. At some point. But I think it’s going to remove all those busy-work jobs, not the jobs where we, as humans, offer value. Here’s a
How to Describe All the Value When You Want to Influence Do you ever wonder how to describe the value of the changes you’ve led or want to lead? Fred, a project leader, needs a new job. His company—despite his project’s success—laid him off. He needs to influence hiring managers to look at his resume
Do you ever struggle with knowing if you should split stories? Or wondering if you have a valuable minimum? Jeffrey Frederick and Squirrel offered a signal for a too-small minimum in their podcast, MVP Cubed. That signal was when people became bored with the work. Let me add some additional tests: When the team can’t
Up until a few months ago, my office was a disaster. I had a ton of old data: Paper in reverse chronological order on surfaces (most recent on top). Printed articles to read. Notes from previous workshops I wanted to integrate when I updated those workshops. Over the past year, as I realized the pandemic
Dan, a CIO, needs the teams to work faster. The customers are moving away from the company’s products. If they can recapture the customers, the company will succeed. If not? Layoffs loom. Dan demands the teams start more work. And he demands they finish the work faster than the teams think they can. Even when