I just heard that reservations for my after-dinner talk at Alamo PMI in San Antonio Wednesday, January 28 are going fast--"filled up faster than we've seen in a long time" according to my host. That's encouraging news for Alamo PMI, for me (I hate it when people don't show up), and for the economy. I'll be talking about How to...
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Let's get together in Atlanta, Georgia September 25th and 26th, 2008 for the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) Atlanta Leadership Summit. This is one of several regional leadership summits APLN hosts each year around the country to great success. I'm honored to be giving the closing keynote on personal agility and Responsibility Redefined™. At APLN Atlanta Leadership Summit you'll also...
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Fan Mail arrived in my inbox this morning from Andra Wisian, the talented producer I engaged to pull together a DVD-based training product (watch here on Christopher Avery's Blog on Responsibility Redefined and on my Responsibility eTips list for launch news in the coming months of Christopher Avery's Responsibility Redefined DVD-based workshop for trainers and team leaders everywhere). Hi C!...
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Head on over to the Agile Journal and click on the article titled Personal Agility For Potent Agile Adoption by Amr Elssamadisy and Ashley Johnson, two friends of mine who are thought leaders in agile and lean software development. They say that the Responsibility Process™ is core to agile behavior. Here's an excerpt: Figure 1 represents a model that we...
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Doug DeCarlo, author if the amazing book eXtreme Project Management, penned a beautiful short article on Responsibility Redefined for his gantthead.com column. See Agility Begins with Responsibility. Thanks Doug! Nicely done.
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Responsibility Redefined is featured alongside Emotional Intelligence on CIO.com. Read the article here: Soft Skills for CIOs and Aspiring CIOs: Four Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence Here's an excerpt: The cornerstone of emotional intelligence and soft skills is responsibility. Everybody has met the manager who is always looking for someone to blame, who micromanages or who condescends. These folks...
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Mike Griffiths, blogging at Leading Answers, recently wrote that he was leaving his employment of six years at Quadrus Development and starting a new gig. Then Mike went on to say that he read some helpful teamwisdom in my book (Teamwork Is An Individual Skill) about Ending With the Beginning in Mind. He then reviewed all the wonderful opportunities he...
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Blogger Dark Star spouts off today in an entry titled State of the Black Union: Accountability Ladder. The top of the entry was about four "ladder rungs" of unaccountability and four ladder rungs of accountability. The ladder metaphor certainly reminds me of the stage-wise nature of climbing the Responsibility Process™. I'll let you go read the blog entry for yourself....
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