Cursing Your Vision Statement

I was coaching someone a while back and asked them to tell me what their vision statement: what motivated him? When I heard the answer, I was not moved. What I heard was boring. I knew this person had passion for what he did. What happened to it? If I ask you to tell me why you do what you […]

Organizational Commitment: Pig & Chicken – Part 2

Many people really don’t like the original cartoon (See & read Pig & Chicken part 1). When I decided to do three strips on the Pig & Chicken, I knew there would be a lot of ‘concern’, but based on where I want to go, I made the decision that it had to be done. Tweet […]

Personal mastery is a journey

The Beginning, Again…

We are all on a journey or likely a number of journeys!  As I write this, the new Agility Street website is nearly done, and this will be the first “new” post on the blog.  One part of the update is to (more) clearly represent what we do.  A second part is to have a […]

Always Learning & Improving

We know there is always more out there.  More to learn, more to share, more to improve!  We started this page as a place to keep track of many of the ideas we would like to add to the site. While we know we can’t include everything on our website, based on questions we get a […]

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A Short History of Kanban (and Lean) (Part 3)

The history of lean and kanban is a challenge to boil down, so inevitably, I know there are aspects that are missing here. The title says “short” because, while there is a lot of information here, it is short in terms of how more is out there!  Additionally, there are often disagreements on certain aspects […]