by Esther Derby | Mar 13, 2012 | Collaboration & Teams, Leadership & Management
“Estimating is often helpful. Estimates are often not,” I said in a Tweet. Several people asked, “How can this be?” Let me say more about estimation, in more than 140 characters. Estimating is often helpful. Estimating helps when the process...
by Esther Derby | Sep 6, 2011 | Leadership & Management
“A talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while there is determined by his relationship with his immediate...
by Esther Derby | Jul 6, 2011 | Collaboration & Teams, Leadership & Management
Many people are conditioned to say Yes to every request that comes their way. I met a CIO like that. He told me his policy was to never say No to the business. So he always said Yes, and the business was always angry because things he agreed to didn’t get done,...
by Esther Derby | Jun 9, 2011 | Collaboration & Teams, Leadership & Management
I recently talked to a group that’s forming a new “change leadership” team. Part of the work of the team is improving the organization, and part is capacity building. Four of the people on the team are folks with technical backgrounds who are viewed as having...
by Esther Derby | Jun 2, 2011 | Leadership & Management
I’ve been noticing what’s missing lately. In some ways, its harder to see what’s not there than what is. But there’s lost of useful information in what isn’t said, as well as what is. For example: A manager, talking about one of the...
