Are you a new manager? Or an experienced manager who wants to check out some good practices? Or you are a manager of managers who need to coach and mentor a new manager? Let me tell you about 3 influential books that are going to improve your approach to management. — A few weeks ago one of my friends asked what books I would recommend for new managers. And I decided to answer that in a video that you can watch here:

Factfulness by Hans Rosling (with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund) was one of the most influential books that I read in 2021. Its subtitle explains what the books tries to achieve better: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think I…

I’ve been an explorer in the leadership and management universe for a long while. I’m hoping to share my thoughts with you using the audiovisual medium on YouTube. — Hi, folks! I just posted my intro video on my new YouTube channel. It explains the reasons why I decided to try something new. I’ve been in professional software development for 25 years, and in the last 15 years I’ve held various leadership roles. …

I’ve heard this question more than a few times: what are other good books similar to The Phoenix Project? Here I listed some other Business Fables that I enjoyed reading. — What makes a book like Gene Kim’s The Phoenix Project popular? I think it’s the story and the story telling. It’s the characters whom we can relate to. It’s their challenges that we’ve faced before. It’s the environment that’s all too familiar. …

I came across this excerpt from a three-letter acronym organization’s historical sabotage manual. It clearly demonstrates that some of our behaviors could be sabotaging our own organizations. — If you’ve been in the business for a while, chances are high you’ve heard things like communication flowing through “the right channels”, or you were forced to work with unnecessarily large committees to design horses that ended up producing camels after long and costly series of meetings.

We live in strange times full of fear, uncertainty, doubt, stress and anxiety. We can’t go out of our homes. Our kids are home-schooled. We are worried about our loved ones. There’s a significant slowdown in the economy. We’re feeling lucky if we still have a job… and we’re trying to work from home. — We don’t have a choice. Many of us are now working from home. At first it seemed like this was going to be beneficial for the future of remote work. We were hopeful that companies would inadvertently unlock remote work’s potential and realize they should have done this earlier.

Covid-19 has been forcing many companies to ask their workforce to work from home. Remote work can be as productive if you pay attention to a few important points. — An increasing number of companies ask their people to work from home in order to flatten the curve. And if you’re in a leadership position, this lays at your feet some decisions to be made. …

The daily stand-up/scrum/huddle is one of the most used and abused practices of many agile methodologies. You need a simple mind-shift to make it more effective. — Stand-ups. Nightmare of some, frustrations of many. Not that you have to practice scrum to have stand-ups, but here is how the Scrum Guide describes it: The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team… At it, the Development Team plans work for the next 24 hours… … Here…