I apologize for accidentally sending last week's article again. Woohoo, I made a mistake (we celebrate mistakes, because they're part of learning). So here is a really new article about how companies often lose a great engineer AND win a bad manager at the same time. Enjoy! A lot of organizations do not have a leadership pipeline problem. They have a career architecture problem. This article looks at why great engineers are so often pushed into management, what that damages, and what better...

Organizations love talking about experimentation – until reality threatens their assumptions. This article explores how a thing called "confirmation bias" quietly kills innovation, product discovery, and real agility. Most Companies Don’t Want Feedback. They Want Confirmation. Most organizations say they value experimentation, innovation, customer feedback, and learning. But if you observe what actually happens inside many companies, something very different emerges. Teams avoid showing...

Most agile transformations don’t fail because “people resist change”. They fail because we design the change in a way that produces resistance – by running it like a Secret Change Club. A small circle meets. Plans. Aligns. Decides. And to everyone else it looks like a black box transformation – something is happening somewhere, but nobody can see what, why, or what’s coming next. And when people can’t see what’s going on, they don’t fill the gap with optimism. They fill it with stories: “They...