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Clean Out The Queep
The Air Force has revoked more than 226 Air Force instructions deemed unnecessary or outdated over the past year as part of its ongoing effort to get rid of so-called “queep.”
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Mentors, Not Managers
This generation craves mentors that guide and inspire them.
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Jumping Through Every Hoop
"I did everything that should have gotten me the title that I wanted. And I didn’t get it."
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Just Walk Out Of Bad Meetings
My trick was simple. I would suddenly grab my mobile phone, look at it, and then head out the door.
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Mitigating Cognitive Dissonance In Our Project
By continuing to try and understand all objections we unexpectedly won over many additional people.
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Build Something Extraordinary By Pursuing More Than Just Profit
It is OK to make a profit but we’ll probably feel better about ourselves and about life in general if we also do something that is good for people in general
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Avoiding A Bad Launch
The 2.6 billion-rouble ($45 million) satellite — the Meteor M — was launched last month from Vostochny, with Roscosmos losing contact with it shortly after. It then emerged that the rocket carrying the satellite had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, and had instead been...
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Agile Needs An Appropriate Culture
I recall their often repeated truism that new tools or new processes wouldn't fix an otherwise dysfunctional organization.
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Silencing The Objections
The lack of open discussion and debate was always a good indicator that the organization was beginning to fail.
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How to Avoid Suboptimal Decision Making
Being brutally honest can have surprising and humorous results.
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Dealing With Human Error
"The human error was that the individual who's responsible for communicating in the organization to apply the patch, did not." Wait, what?
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Is It Faux Agile Or Just Uninspired?
I remember the first time it happened to me. I’d been an agile developer for less than a year. We were having our morning stand-up, and something felt off. The room was oddly crowded. The scrum master was having a heated discussion with a developer....
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Take the Time to Explain and to Understand
Take time to explain why you believe something — not just what you believe and why your opponent is wrong. So how did Bastian switch over from home birth advocate to home birth critic? It started with conversations with researchers in Sydney, who were compassionate...
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Ignore Conventional Wisdom and Do Your Own Research
The trick was always to look past common wisdom and corporate culture even when everyone was encouraging us to do it the same old way.
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