Writing
I write about teams, change and complexity. The newest pieces come from leading engineering teams today, and the 2020 posts come from my years as a coach, where many of these ideas started.
The bottleneck moved
When AI made writing code cheap, reviewing it became the constraint, so my team stopped asking people to read faster and built a safety net instead.
Beginning and Ending with Gratitude, Part 2
I expected Glenda Eoyang’s “Poems” exercise to fall flat over Zoom without sticky notes in a room, and the energy in the session proved me wrong.
The Power of Inquiry
This exercise from Human Systems Dynamics helps you get unstuck: describe a sticky issue in three sentences, then listen to the questions without answering them.
Pattern Spotting Super Powers
When a team of managers couldn’t get along, one question in a workshop showed what was really dividing them.
Beginning and Ending with Gratitude
Thanking five people a day felt awkward at first, but it became an energy store for me and led to a meeting warm-up you can try with your own team.