Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization

Agile Rituals are not a type of meeting; they’re elements in a Meeting Flow Model (see chapter 35) defining all the different types of meetings Agile developers need in order to get their work done.

Create a Culture in Which It Is Okay to Make Mistakes and Unacceptable Not to Learn from Them This is Work Principle number three in Ray Dalio’s book Principles. It resonates deeply with me and with the people I’ve met who strive to operate at high performance levels.

“The Flow” is the name given to a skilled individual’s peak productive state. Great work happens when people are in the flow, a state of deep concentration and productive output that, when achieved, temporarily suspends time. Research conducted by positive psychologist Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi and his international team found there are 10 components

PMQ looks at the quality of an individual meeting. Learning to run a meeting well is a worthy accomplishment! Leading one good meeting matters, but as we all know, most meetings are not solitary beasts. Only bad meetings stand alone; failed sales calls and botched negotiations are not joined by a second meeting. The rest of our meetings travel in p

If people know the organization’s current goals, understand the longer-term vision they’re being asked to help build, and appreciate the current conditions affecting their work, they have a clear understanding of what they need to achieve.

We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience. —John Dewey, Philosopher and Psychologist

“The aim of the net-positive movement is to encourage businesses to leave the world a better place than they find it.” —Oliver Bach for the Guardian

Study after study has shown that the words we use to describe what we do can have a dramatic effect on what happens next. In his books Influence and Pre-Suasion, Robert Cialdini shares dozens of enlightening examples. In social psychology circles, this phenomenon is called priming or framing. The way you frame a meeting can set the tone and the bou

This is another reason why I recommend teams work to banish the word “meeting” from their calendars. It’s a critical-thinking exercise. When you are forced to use a more specific name than “meeting,” you automatically think through what else you might call this thing. Then, with the Taxonomy as a handy cheat sheet, you can get to the clarity requir