What your DEI strategy is missing: the hard part
Achieving our much-needed Diversity and Equity goals require that Inclusion is truly structural Inclusion is the most important part of DEI: without inclusion, all your work hiring into diversity and assuring equitable compensation will be noble gestures whose impact is never realized. All three are important, for sure, but making your organization more inclusive is…
Making Agile Work for Marketers
Agile, real Agile, the stuff of legends, can be used in a marketing environment, and when done well, it changes the game of marketing. You’re about to hear proof of that…actually hear it. Why should Agile matter to marketing? Because the marketing function is one…
The Elusive Search for Organizational Agile
Even today, most organizations struggle with becoming “more agile.” Paradoxically, some of our failures as managers make Good Agile less likely to happen, and the way many choose to implement Agile creates confusion and failure. I’m amazed at how poorly the new management fad of…
Will Management Succeed at Killing Agile?
Agile as Anything Management Wants is bad Agile, and it is not only destroying the good Agile, but is also destroying a moment in which Agile might have actually made things better…truly better.
There are actually many styles of Agile out there, but they are very different.