Leadership & Management

Manager is a formal role, but leaders are at all levels in an organization. Practical tips + philosophical musings on leadership, management, and the way we need to think about both in modern companies.

Blog Posts

Podcasts

The Law of Jam- a Podcast for people who care about systems thinking, agile, leadership, and management. Hosted by Esther Derby & Viktor Cessan.
The argument over whether specialists or generalists are more valuable to an organization has been...
The Law of Jam- a Podcast for people who care about systems thinking, agile, leadership, and management. Hosted by Esther Derby & Viktor Cessan.
We’ve seen many organizations invest huge amounts of money and energy in training as part...
There are a handful of things, that if you manage to shift them, you can...
I talk a lot on this podcast about tiny changes, changing systems and creating environments...
Adaptive Capacity is the ability to respond to change—whether that change is an adverse market...
I recently had a fascinating conversation with Matthew Carlson, a senior consultant at Industrial Logic....

Videos

In this video, I’ll teach you what to do to unearth the value in vague...
Do you dread offering feedback at work? If you’re a leader or a manager feedback...
Most of the time, both hiring managers and candidates look for /skills/ match–the employee has...

In this video, I’ll talk about job satisfiers–what will make YOU happy.

Traditional definitions of leadership emphasize position, formal authority and power, vision, heroics. Those definitions might...