The NeXT team was integrated, with both Ops (now) and engineering (the future) in the same small...
Leadership topic - partner
Partner is step three of the empower framework: leaders who partner work with customers and teams to produce world-class results. Manage stakeholders, address issues effectively and practices the fine art of negotiation. Blends people into teams when needed; Can quickly find common ground and solve problems for the good of all; Can negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups; gains trust quickly of other parties to the negotiations; has a good sense of timing.
Roadblock – Competes first versus sharing responsibility, Optimizes for their team/personal goals first. Delegates pieces and parts; treats people as a collection of individuals not a team.
Start with Promise, Together or Harmony, then see how it plays out across the Avett Brothers series.
renewing Promises
The culture of most Ops groups is the same everywhere ... and unique compared to the rest of IT....
How does a Promise execute?
We were again in my office, which you are going to think is more a disaster recovery site,...
wondering about Promise…
I have written before about the great office I had for this season ... whiteboards on both big...
The Promise of observation…
Like children, you don't really have favorites on a Team ... or shouldn't. It is where the Pooh...
The Promise of partners…
When I started teaching at JMU, I noticed that the people I worked with who had gone there shared...
Management Promise…
I really hadn't intended to land in Ops, and frankly thought my "career" was over. Pretty much...
engaging the Promise…
Our group was "Advanced Technologies," doing cutting-edge work with the Promise of Object...
Who are you Thanks partners?
When I arrived at Fannie in 1992, there were about 400 developers/contractors… and we used about...
Change partners…
If you ever are asked to work a business show, my advice would be say NO. You stand in a booth...
What do you Hope for in partners?
While I was helping get the Intel card up and moving through IBM, our specific challenge was to...
partners for Fun…
I know I was gone for 250 of the 300 days available in 18 months for this season… New York’s taxes...
The Opportunity to partner…
At a Women In Technology meeting a few years ago, a young woman said "How did you construct such a...
What Guts do your partners have?
When you would walk into a Debate Round, you would put your name on the ChalkBoard - your number,...













