How can your calendar add years to your life

How can your calendar add years to your life

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. (Annie Dillard)   I learned long ago that the little recurring things add up and this time is expensive. The commute, the morning schedule, what meals you eat, how much you sleep. Over the course of a...
A new and better way of meeting

A new and better way of meeting

The effectiveness of a team is its ability to execute on its decisions   The biggest decisions that your team will make take place during its meetings. But there’s so many problems with the way teams meet today. We have meetings to schedule meetings. We...
Inspection is not about looking good or bad

Inspection is not about looking good or bad

My Passion: Empowering people to live their best life.  Have you heard the saying, “inspect what you expect”? I lived by that motto and for all the wrong reasons. I’d inspect & ask questions, dive in and make sure the projects I was working on were being executed...
Collaboration = Partnership

Collaboration = Partnership

Flashback As I prepare for my gymnastics meet I pace the gym running through my floor routine over and over. Counting each dance step, simulating each back flip, cartwheel and pass in my mind over and over brings me to formulate a solid plan to score big. I envision...
Productive meetings for software engineers

Productive meetings for software engineers

You will never get 100% of software engineers to agree on using spaces or tabs to indent their code (the correct answer is spaces, by the way), but there is one thing that they all agree on, meetings can be a huge waste of time. In fact, a recent survey found that 65%...