Working to repair the world, one sketchnote at a time
Lots (literally) in this Torah portion. The message gifted to me by Rabbi Carla Freedman was “…that goodness must reach a critical mass in order to offset the evil around it.” Critical mass – the minimum size or amount of something needed required to maintain or start a venture. How does it feel to be […]
Purpose. We all have it. Maybe we all want it. Or maybe yours is there but you aren’t ready to look for it. In any event purpose is not an easy thing to define. How can we find our purpose if we don’t know what ‘purpose’ is. So let’s break it down. Purpose is part […]
We live in a world of disequilibrium. Agile helps us deliver innovation in disequilibrium. ~ James R. Wood Our role as agilists is to help our teams lean to move faster/better/stronger as a team. Does that mean instilling order? No. Innovation does not happen when the environment is stabile. An equilibrium, by definition is a state […]
This is a reprint of a post I wrote for a company blog in 2016 A few months ago Pat Falotico (@patfalotico) from the Robert Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership (@Greenleafcenter on Twitter) came to my company to give a talk on servant leadership using Robert Greenleaf’s book “The Servant as Leader” as the basis for discussion. […]
#1 There’s a classic joke about a mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer. An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are staying for the night in a hotel. A small fire breaks out in each room. The mathematician awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on a blackboard installed in the room, does some quick […]