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Every impression is a first impression
Almost daily I receive at least one phone call from some agency wanting to sell their website building services, triggered by domain...

Gino Marckx
Sep 15, 20221 min read


5 business agility benefits and 5 obstacles: Summing it all up
We made it! Over the past several weeks, we’ve discussed the benefits of improving business agility and the obstacles that can get in the...
Peter Maddison
Aug 23, 20223 min read


Business Agility needs resilient systems
Business agility helps you build resilient systems, as we’ve described in this previous article. Resiliency helps manage risks and keep...
Peter Maddison
Aug 11, 20222 min read


Business Agility needs leaders to put people first
As we’ve mentioned in a previous article, business agility can create a culture that increases retention and morale. While business...
Peter Maddison
Aug 3, 20222 min read


How business agility protects your bottom line by helping you build resilient systems
For this fifth article in our series on how business agility can improve your bottom line, we look at how business agility aids building...
Peter Maddison
Jun 28, 20224 min read


How business agility improves culture and aids retention
Business owners tend to underestimate the cost of recruiting and retaining the talent needed to grow. In 2022, it was reported that...
Peter Maddison
Jun 22, 20223 min read


How business agility improves your customer alignment
Previously, we’ve talked about how business agility can increase your company’s bottom line by: lowering costs through improving delivery...
Peter Maddison
Jun 8, 20223 min read


Letting go to lead
Whenever the weather allows for it, we like to eat outside. At dinner time in our little courtyard in the city of Toronto, mother nature...

Gino Marckx
May 31, 20213 min read


Meet the learning organization
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus was onto something when he said many years ago that “Change is the only constant” A saying as true today...

Gino Marckx
Feb 5, 20212 min read


Knowing where you are on your digital transformation journey
How many of you have been through something labelled as a digital transformation in the past 5 years? Many hands go up, and several...
Peter Maddison
Apr 19, 20205 min read


This is the time. Every crisis is an opportunity
We rarely find the time to invest in personal development when we are heads down in our work and lives. Often it only occurs when a...

Gino Marckx
Mar 31, 20202 min read


Continuous improvement of work and psychological safety
Following on from my blog post covering the first two ideals from the Unicorn Project here, I’d like to continue discussing the next two...
Peter Maddison
Feb 24, 20203 min read


How to scale the transformation
Your organization is changing and undergoing transformation. You’ve rolled out Agile (Scrum and Kanban), you’ve scaled it (SAFe, LeSS,...
Peter Maddison
Feb 17, 20203 min read


Making Digital Transformation Stick
You have an idea, a spark, concept of how your organization could do things better. Now all you need is to work out how. A typical...
Peter Maddison
Feb 10, 20203 min read


Overcoming Organizational Barriers to Change: Part 3 - Dealing with silos
When working with some of our larger customers, we frequently run into common barriers to change. Change is difficult and, no matter how...
Peter Maddison
Nov 20, 20193 min read


Be the change
In context of our attendance at Collision last month, we published a quick survey to validate some of our assumptions about Socrates....

Gino Marckx
Jun 13, 20193 min read


Overcoming Organizational Barriers to Change: Part 2 - Not seeing the system as a whole
When working with some of our larger customers we frequently run into common barriers to change. Change is difficult and, no matter how...
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Jun 3, 20194 min read


Overcoming Organizational Barriers to Change: Part 1 - Blame Culture
When working with some of our larger customers we frequently run into common barriers to change. Change is difficult and, no matter how...
Peter Maddison
Apr 2, 20193 min read


Importance of Criticism
The past couple of weeks my children had to prepare and present short speeches at school. I encouraged them to practice and provided them...
Peter Maddison
Feb 14, 20193 min read


Applied coaching
Beyond providing advice in order to help teams thrive, we need to help teams move along in their journey. The better we can do this the...
Peter Maddison
Jan 13, 20191 min read
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