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2026

If only.original ↗

28 Feb 2026

Why your feedback might not be working original ↗

3 Jan 2026

2025

Deeper Conversations at Work original ↗

18 Sept 2025

2024

I am the epitome of dominant culture.original ↗

2 Oct 2024

Leading indicators that indicate leading original ↗

1 Oct 2024

2020

When they don’t know what to do, they’ll do what they know.original ↗

9 Sept 2020

Are your engineer’s bees or chickens?original ↗

8 Sept 2020

Bridging the PM Gap with Rich Mironov original ↗

9 Jul 2020

How Core Values Influence Diversity and Inclusion with Kim Crayton original ↗

25 Jun 2020

No Fighting In This (Agile) Dojo with M. David Green original ↗

11 Jun 2020

Finding Career Opportunities Through Experimentation with Josh Doody original ↗

28 May 2020

How Agile Work Actually Works with Allen Holub original ↗

14 May 2020

Leveraging Remote Work with Laurel Farrer original ↗

16 Apr 2020

Making Software Development Teams Hum with Ron Lichty original ↗

2 Apr 2020

Being Your Own Leader in Times of Transition with Han Yuan original ↗

19 Mar 2020

Changing How We Change Software with GeePaw Hill original ↗

5 Mar 2020

Improve your Product Management with Ellen Gottesdiener original ↗

20 Feb 2020

Safety not guaranteed original ↗

17 Feb 2020

Build better relationships through coding original ↗

16 Feb 2020

The uneven distribution of onboarding original ↗

7 Feb 2020

Leadership Strategies from Nature with Dr. Kathleen Allen original ↗

6 Feb 2020

The Art of Leadership with Michael Lopp original ↗

23 Jan 2020

Junk-food for the Manager’s Soul original ↗

17 Jan 2020

Collaboration and Notqmail with Amitai Schleier original ↗

10 Jan 2020

A thought on Relational Onboarding original ↗

10 Jan 2020

Office Space Cathedrals original ↗

4 Jan 2020

Debugging problems original ↗

2 Jan 2020

2019

My three hopes for 2020 original ↗

23 Dec 2019

Becoming a Better Manager Means Starting with Yourself with Johanna Rothman original ↗

19 Dec 2019

Reverse engineering meetings original ↗

16 Dec 2019

When should you code, coach, or consult?original ↗

12 Dec 2019

Foresight is 2020 original ↗

11 Dec 2019

Rise of the Resilient Manager with Lara Hogan original ↗

11 Dec 2019

How marketing ruined leadership original ↗

6 Dec 2019

Put me in coach, I’m ready to play original ↗

5 Dec 2019

Compassionate Coding with April Wensel original ↗

5 Dec 2019

What can you find, but never keep?original ↗

4 Dec 2019

Can I run an analogy by you?original ↗

3 Dec 2019

What do sex, drugs, and turnover have in common?original ↗

2 Dec 2019

The evolution of my leadership ideas original ↗

29 Nov 2019

”Thanks for cleaning the toilet, Marcus”original ↗

28 Nov 2019

Finding Your Balance with Camille Fournier original ↗

28 Nov 2019

5 questions to untangle sticky problems original ↗

26 Nov 2019

Find your first-team original ↗

22 Nov 2019

My Mission original ↗

21 Nov 2019

Seven quick rants original ↗

19 Nov 2019

Three parts to the mission original ↗

18 Nov 2019

Conflict: Uncomfortable, Yet Necessary with Jennifer Jones-Patulli original ↗

14 Nov 2019

The mission original ↗

13 Nov 2019

Turnover: “It’s not me, it’s you”original ↗

7 Nov 2019

Give transparency in small doses original ↗

5 Nov 2019

”How can you get lucky more often?”original ↗

3 Nov 2019

Rules of Change with Esther Derby original ↗

31 Oct 2019

Minesweeper and bad hires original ↗

28 Oct 2019

A New Leadership Model with Jason Wong original ↗

24 Oct 2019

13 questions to get more feedback from your team original ↗

23 Oct 2019

It’s not a sign of weakness, but of strength.original ↗

22 Oct 2019

”What advice do you have for addressing the insecurity of…”original ↗

18 Oct 2019

The One Constant with Don Gray original ↗

17 Oct 2019

On cubicle and apple farms original ↗

10 Oct 2019

The Importance of Trust and Communication with Tim Ottinger original ↗

10 Oct 2019

Investing in the Long Game with Reuven Lerner original ↗

3 Oct 2019

No naughty or nice with nuts original ↗

1 Oct 2019

Improvisational sketch leadership original ↗

30 Sept 2019

A First Team Mindset original ↗

26 Sept 2019

Designing problems is harder than it looks…original ↗

25 Sept 2019

An audiobook, a workshop, and slack – oh my!original ↗

20 Sept 2019

Learning to Handle Uncertainty original ↗

19 Sept 2019

Buy your toothpaste when you get there original ↗

18 Sept 2019

Managing to Solve An Elegant Puzzle with Will Larson original ↗

12 Sept 2019

The leader’s blind-spot original ↗

9 Sept 2019

Building good relationships are the key to everything you want original ↗

6 Sept 2019

Monkeys and Rocks with Matt Greenberg original ↗

5 Sept 2019

It’s impossible to keep your balance original ↗

4 Sept 2019

Dynamic Reteaming with Heidi Helfand original ↗

29 Aug 2019

My mistaken motivation mindset original ↗

27 Aug 2019

Does the “point velocity” of a scrum team matter?original ↗

26 Aug 2019

Putting the Emotion Into EQ with Etienne de Bruin original ↗

22 Aug 2019

Quantum Onboarding original ↗

21 Aug 2019

”What is everyone working on?”original ↗

20 Aug 2019

The Importance of Proper Feedback original ↗

15 Aug 2019

Systems always seek their real goal original ↗

14 Aug 2019

Stepping in without Stepping in it original ↗

9 Aug 2019

Lessons Learned on the Path to Managing with Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall original ↗

8 Aug 2019

The surprising effect of traffic and bathrooms original ↗

5 Aug 2019

”I really like what you did there.”original ↗

2 Aug 2019

Authentic Feedback original ↗

1 Aug 2019

Our newest sponsor comes bearing gifts original ↗

31 Jul 2019

Status update and reading list – July 2019 original ↗

29 Jul 2019

There’s Always More Information original ↗

25 Jul 2019

Games Socrates played original ↗

18 Jul 2019

Motivation is NaN (Not a Number)original ↗

18 Jul 2019

I guess Ananya’s situation looked familiar.original ↗

17 Jul 2019

Does this sound familiar?original ↗

13 Jul 2019

If only I’d had more time original ↗

12 Jul 2019

How Buffer.com Develops Engineering Leadership Skills From Day 1 With Katie Womersley original ↗

11 Jul 2019

”Grown up” issues original ↗

9 Jul 2019

What Jack (probably) thought about being fired original ↗

5 Jul 2019

Imagine the Possibilities: How to Break Ties That Hinder Our Potential original ↗

4 Jul 2019

Use a PIP, or just fire them?original ↗

3 Jul 2019