Embracing My Product Role
Stepping back into a product role, I’m feeling the joy of honoring what I consider almost a prime directive, that the rest of the team feel confident in the next step and reassured that product has their back.
Articles and Posts
Insights on leadership, technology, and human-centered strategy, originally shared on LinkedIn and expanded for deeper exploration.
Detailing User Flows and Collaboration
We have an hour to begin detailing user flows, expectations and exception handling. There are more collaborative techniques for getting at this but given the time, online participation, and web based tool, I’m resorting to a good old activity flow map. Suggestions for next time?
Embracing Imposter Syndrome for Growth
Imposter syndrome is uncomfortable, but I accept it in myself and I use it to fuel my learning, community with others, and to continuously improve. #ImposterSyndrome #PersonalGrowth #LeadershipForum #ContinuousImprovement
Pretending to Be Grown Up in NYC
I get to pretend to be a grown up in NYC. That is — a grown up who doesn’t feel it some of the time but can muster a good impression most of the time.
Advancing Conscious Leadership Together
I’m attending From Me to We: Advancing Conscious Leadership to Tackle Today’s Challenges. Would you like to attend?
Embracing New Challenges in Product Support
Working in as a supporting product person for one of our clients. First client billing in a while. First individual contribution in a while. Approaching it with no ego but pretty deep confidence in my decades of experience however rusty the last four years have made me.
Research on Dual Track Agile in Energy Sector
Completed a third draft of the research paper I’m authoring with Michael Wytock and Caroline Miller on using dual track agile to accelerate the timeline for when aggregations of sustainable distributed energy resources can compete with fossil fuel plants to provide power under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 2222.
Would love informal peer review from any power sector or agile domain experts out there before we submit. Reply if interested.
#energyindustry #sustainability #agile
Closing the Loop with AI Art
Opening unopened email. Subjects attempting to “close the loop” put my mind in a loop. So, I asked midjourney to draw “closing the loop in the style of a single line drawing” for me…
Except for generative ai hand weirdness it’s quite a good evocation of the moment.
Monthly Progress Updates as Senior Partner
In my new role as senior partner, I’m sharing my progress on goals on a monthly basis with my entire company. “I appreciate this role is an experiment and I feel accountable to all of you to report my progress.
Embracing Selective Participation
I’m embracing the joy of selective participation. Reducing the time I spend doing things I “should” do. Focusing my time helping co-workers with permission on their terms and advancing my own learning and growth.
Navigating Professional Insecurities
Scrolling the LinkedIn feed in a down mood is like walking a canyon of mirrors in bright sunlight. I have to shade my eyes from the reflected glare of my own professional insecurities. https://lnkd.in/ejxfqNPz #professionaljourney #careertransition #personalgrowth
Crafting a Meaningful Company Mission
Building a company mission that really represents who you are and what you intend to accomplish so that you can not only justify decisions using the language of values and mission but describe how you’ve altered decisions based on them. https://khj.me/4436dQe #BusinessStrategy #Leadership #CompanyCulture #MissionStatement