by Kiron Bondale | Jun 20, 2021 | communications, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management
(Photo by Moose Photos from Pexels) George Bernard Shaw said: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”. This quote came to mind while I was contemplating the basic communication model which many of us learn about early in...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 6, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety, team building
One of Steve Jobs’ most famous quotes comes from the kickoff to the 1997 Apple Think Different campaign: “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond...
by Kiron Bondale | May 30, 2021 | Agile, improving project management, management failure, project management, Project performance, Psychological Safety
In a recent HBR article, the authors wrote about research they had conducted over a year on the relationships between how dispersed teams were and the speed at which their projects either succeeded or failed. While dispersed teams appeared to be more efficient than...
by Kiron Bondale | May 2, 2021 | Agile, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety, Risk Management, team building
HBR published an article this week titled Managing your WFH paranoia. In the article, the author focuses on the impacts of the “out of sight, out of mind” concerns which many workers have developed over the course of the past year resulting from COVID-19 pandemic work...
by Kiron Bondale | Apr 25, 2021 | management failure, project management, Psychological Safety, Risk Management, team building
Having the courage to speak up within a team without fear of social repercussion is a symptom of a higher level of psychological safety. Depending on the context of the complaint it might, in fact, be evidence of Challenger Safety which is the top level of Dr. Timothy...
by Kiron Bondale | Apr 18, 2021 | Agile, project management
Whether your team follows a specific framework or has taken a mix-and-match approach with its practices, a tenet of agile is the use of short feedback loops to support inspection and adaptation. Whether your team sets a regular cadence for external product reviews or...
