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  • Blog Post: Elizabeth Edersheim on Management Lessons of a Lifelong Student

    I’m always on the lookout for the best insight and action you can use for work and life.  I especially enjoy when I find somebody who is truly a thought leader, a giant in their space. After all, I’m a big fan of helping everyone “stand on the shoulders of giants.” Elizabeth is a giant (actually...
    on23 Apr 2013

  • Blog Post: Leadership Development in a Box

    “Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.” — Jim Rohn Actually, it's leadership development in a book .  The book is, Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential , by John Mattone. Intelligent Leadership...
    on9 Apr 2013

  • Blog Post: 5 of the Best Books I’ve Read Recently on Getting Jobs, Doing Leadership, and Presenting with Skill

    I read a lot.  I read fast.  I go through a lot of books each month.  Books help give me new ideas and ways to do things better, faster, and cheaper.   Books are one of the best ways I get the edge in work and life. Here are the 5 of the best books I’ve read recently, along with...
    on5 Apr 2013

  • Blog Post: Trends for 2013 at a Glance

    Is your city smarter than a 5th grader?   This is a serious and significant post everything from Smart Cities to the top 4 mega-trends shaping technology for the next 10 years.  It’s the key trends for 2013 at your fingertips: Trends for 2013 – The Rise of the Entrepreneur If you’ve ever...
    on7 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Best Leadership Books

    My Best Leadership Books list is now ready for action.   I’ve revised the Top 10 Best Leadership Books section, added a Getting Started section and an A-Z List of the Best Leadership Books to help you quickly scan the full collection.  I hope you find it to be one of the most useful lists...
    on24 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: Change Patterns: Strategies for Influence and Impact

    The Change Patterns are a very fundamental set of strategies you can add to your Change Leadership toolkit. I’m a fan of patterns.  In their simplest form, they are a great way to build a shared vocabulary and rapidly transfer knowledge and experience.  It’s a great thing when a single word...
    on17 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: 25 Books the Most Successful Microsoft Leaders Read and Do

    This is a list of 25 of some of the best books that the most effective Microsoft leaders read and do.   They don’t just read the books.  They actually learn the material.  And more importantly, they actually do what’s inside.  I mentor a lot of people, and I have a lot of mentors...
    on12 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Project Management, Productivity, and Leadership for Unstoppable You

    What do you get when you combine the power of project management with proven practices for productivity and leadership ? You get an extremely productive leadership … the kind that takes your execution capability to new heights and makes your competition jealous (or at least take notice.) I’ve put together...
    on13 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Team of Leaders

    I have a very special guest post about leadership and how to build a team of leaders.    It’s by Bob and Gregg Vanourek, the authors of Triple Crown Leadership . It’s special because it reminds me of the leadership culture we created in the early days of the Microsoft patterns & practices...
    on12 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Decision Making Article Roundup

    Decision making is a skill we get to practice every day.  The surprise is that it's the key to either accelerate or limit your career.  It's the backbone of judgment.  Leaders need the ability to make decisions and take decisive action.  Effective decision making is an art and science...
    on26 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Personal Development Resources at Sources of Insight

    If you follow my blog, you know that Sources of Insight is my blog dedicated to personal effectiveness .   It includes almost 900 articles on happiness , leadership , personal development , productivity , and more. Sources of Insight also features special guest stars, including best-selling...
    on17 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Leadership is Who You Are

    I'm honored to have a guest post by Alan Shelton.  It's Leadership is Who You Are .  Alan is the author of Awakened Leadership, and his guest post is about how the key to effective leadership is to be more of who you already are. It's a powerful idea.  Instead of changing who you are to...
    on14 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Kanban: The Secret of High-Performing Teams at Microsoft

    If you are a project manager or a program manager, or aspiring to be, one of the best project management tools you can add to your toolbox is the Kanban. In fact, if somebody were to ask me, what’s the single best way to exponentially improve project execution, I would probably say, the answer is Kanban...
    on12 May 2012

  • Blog Post: 10 Free Leadership Tools for Work and Life

    As one of my wise mentors always said, “If it’s free, it’s for me.” (Tom, are you out there?)  Here is a quick list of free leadership tools you can use today, right now, to change your game.  These tools are battle-tested and have stood the test of time.  The beauty is you can take them...
    on7 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Positive Quotes for Work and Life

    When life throws you a nasty curve ball, or when the best laid plans of mice and men go awry, it can be tough to look on the bright side.   But that’s what leaders do.  Whether you are a leader or developing your own self-leadership, positive quotes can serve you well.   They...
    on6 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Agile Results: It Works for Teams and Leaders Too

    “No one can whistle a symphony.  It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”   -- H.E. Luccock A colleague of mine that’s been using Agile Results as an individual contributor asked me about how to apply Agile Results to a team as a manager.   It’s actually a question that I get a lot...
    on25 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: 10 Things Great Managers Do

    What do great managers do?   To put it simply, they bring out your best .   Whether it’s fire you up or get on your path or help you overcome your personal challenges, they help you flourish. Aside from all the managers I’ve had before Microsoft, I’ve had 14 managers at Microsoft...
    on7 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Leadership Books Sweep

    I finished sweeping my Leadership Books list .  It took a while to update it, but I think it reflects a good set of leadership books by key categories now.  I added a few new books to my leadership books list including The 5 Levels of Leadership, by John Maxwell, and StandOut, by Marcus Buckingham...
    on11 Dec 2011

  • Blog Post: Leadership Quotes

    I’ve put together a comprehensive collection of leadership quotes .  It took me a bit longer than I expected, but I wanted a lot of things to be right.  I wanted to choose the best quotes.   I wanted to organize them in useful and meaningful categories.   I wanted this particular...
    on7 Dec 2011

  • Blog Post: Double-Loop Learning and How Agile Approaches Change the Game to Thrive in Times of Change

    All paths lead to the same town.  I love it when dots finally connect, or when we have a name, or label, or vocabulary to express a concept that’s been around for a while, that people intuitively know from experience.  It makes it easier to share with others that don’t.  Here’s a bit of...
    on30 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Motivation Techniques and Motivation Theories

    "To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." – Bruce Lee Motivation is a key to making things happen, whether you’re developing software, leading teams, or just getting yourself out of bed and on with your day. It's hard to change the world, or even just your world for that matter...
    on13 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Why Teams Fail

    One of the questions I get asked is, “Why do teams fail?” While there are lots of reasons, here are some of the most common patterns I see: Lack of clarity on the customer Lack of priorities Too much open work Not enough doers (aka ... too many chiefs, not enough Indians) Single points of failure One...
    on28 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: Leadership Checklist

    I created a Leadership Checklist to distill and share practices for effective leadership. I created this checklist a little bit differently to try something out.  I used a “user story” approach and I wrote each checklist item as a mini-story you can use for self-reflection.  In a way, they...
    on23 May 2011

  • Blog Post: Why Does Culture Matter?

    I saw the Facebook privacy issue on the news. I remember somebody saying, developers should just be responsible.  A common practice is to "make it work, then make it right."  The problem is, you don't always get a chance to "make it right."  That very much depends on...
    on18 Jan 2011

  • Blog Post: Lessons Learned in Execution

    I’ve been thinking about execution and the lessons learned.   I’ve summarized some insights and reminders. I’ve been lucky enough to grow up with patterns & practices over the last 10 years, so I’ve been able to see what works, what doesn’t, and the difference that makes the difference...
    on3 Jan 2011
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