I’m sitting here exhausted after a day at The Art and Science of Change followed by an evening of playing baseball with the kids! Now my brain AND my body need an ice pack.
This conference stretched my comfort zone given it’s the first large event outside of the Agile and Lean communities I’ve presented at. I’ll admit I was a bit nervous given the majority of the crowd was much more entrenched in the traditional change management world than me. I was pleasantly surprised by the wonderful comments I received about my session, even though I did throw a fairly large rock in the traditional change management pond! [click to continue…]
by jason on April 17, 2013
Myself and the rest of the Leanintuit crew attended the Toronto Agile Open Space last weekend in Toronto. As usual it was a mentally and emotionally exhausting day! I was happy to re-connect with old friends and to meet new ones.
This year’s theme was quality and I proposed a session to talk about the effects that motivation (or lack thereof) has on quality. Do “motivated” people do higher quality work? Gallup says that the US economy loses $350 B (Billion!!) per year in lost productivity due to dis-engaged employees. I decided to see what other people thought about this and played the Moving Motivators game from Management 3.0. [click to continue…]
