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Wine Store: Does perfectionism cause failure?
The pandemic compels old school Manhattan store to modernize to retain market. Does perfectionism cause failure? How did Dan Dickson get unstuck?
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Mindful Parenting for Space Camp
Christina Smith Shares How Agile Methods And Frequent Feedback Give Her Children The Tools They Need To Succeed In this episode Christina Smith, a certified scrum master, shares how she started practicing agile and mindful parenting. Like most parents, Christina wants her children to lead happy and fulfilling lives, both now and when they are…
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Enjoy.com Crashes Into Reality, Bye Bye $500 Million
Enjoy.com turned $500M of invested capital and goodwill into nothing. This was Johnson’s second attempt as a CEO. What did he learn from that failure? How did it shape his new company?
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Business on Fire 2: Could Business Mindfulness have Saved JCPenney?
In this “organizational mindfulness” episode, we define and use the concept to analyze companies. Mindful businesses have high resiliency and avoid catastrophic risks.
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From Failure: Lean Manufacturing and Scrum
Failure motivated at least two radical management frameworks adopted by almost all companies in their respective sectors: Lean Manufacturing and Scrum
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Business on Fire Part I: JCPenney and Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson succeeded wildly in redesigning Target stores and building Apple Stores, but crashed and burned JCPenney and Enjoy.com
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Want lasting change? Label emotions
If we want lasting change, we have to understand all the forces around us, and emotions may be our strongest opponent. When forced to change, people feel fear, rage, anxiety, and other emotions.
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Hand to Mouth: Noticing and Labeling
A Mindful Agility podcast listener, Heather Schenck, tried a technique we demonstrated in a previous episode, with her four-year-old. Her husband was doubtful.
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Mindlessness Kills Agile
Agile is fragile. Agile makes creative projects successful, data shows agile works, but mindlessness is common. Mindlessness destroys agile.
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You Lost Your Keys? Again?!
Matt moved in with his girlfriend, and losing his keys kept making them late. Can mindful agility help? Use weekly sprints, measuring outcomes, retrospectives in the context of home life.